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rbogue's review
5.0
Self-Esteem is something we’re pushing into our children. Dr. Spock’s guidance to parents in the 1950s led parents to work on a child’s self-esteem to the exclusion of proper discipline. Here’s what Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi says in Finding Flow...
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madisoncarrasco's review
4.0
Don’t read if you have a phobia of the word “box”.
I am not a big non-fiction reader but this was enjoyable and applicable in many areas of life, not just work.
I am not a big non-fiction reader but this was enjoyable and applicable in many areas of life, not just work.
dllh's review
3.0
This one is infuriatingly patronizing, and I felt like I was reading a very very long-form variant of the old Goofus and Gallant cartoons at times, but the main idea of the book seems sound. As with so many of these business books I'm reading, I feel like it would have made a great article but a whole book devoted to it tends to overwork the material.
eldobo's review
5.0
Helpful, insightful, and quick read
Very quick read that I could immediately apply to my life, both at home and at work. I'd recommend to anyone.
Very quick read that I could immediately apply to my life, both at home and at work. I'd recommend to anyone.
bethgiven's review
4.0
From the cover and the title, this looks like a boring business book, but trust me on this one -- it's actually applicable to anyone who deals with other human beings. You can apply these principles professionally or privately, with your spouse or your coworker or the stranger on the freeway who won't let you merge. It's a book for everyone!
There are some truly invaluable principles in here that can really change a person's happiness level. I found it echoes gospel truths I already knew -- being humble and teachable and soft-hearted, being accountable for your own attitudes and actions -- but just because I found these principles to be familiar didn't mean I couldn't use a refresher! This book explains it all in a way that's quite logical and easy to grasp, even if it does take a lot of maturity to ask ourselves "is it I?" and try to change.
Another thing this book has going for it: the principles are all laid out as a story (it reminded me a bit of [b:The Peacegiver|434535|The Peacegiver How Christ Offers to Heal Our Hearts and Homes|James L. Ferrell|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388383083s/434535.jpg|2243662] that way). Yes, the story may be on the hokey side (the characters do a lot of sitting in an office and talking to each other -- great literature this is not), but since it's simply a vehicle for the reader to learn the principles, it does its job deftly: this book is one of those quick, read-in-a-day type books.
I hope the ideas stick with me for awhile. If I find myself still thinking about this in a couple of weeks maybe I'll come back to this review and bump it to five stars.
There are some truly invaluable principles in here that can really change a person's happiness level. I found it echoes gospel truths I already knew -- being humble and teachable and soft-hearted, being accountable for your own attitudes and actions -- but just because I found these principles to be familiar didn't mean I couldn't use a refresher! This book explains it all in a way that's quite logical and easy to grasp, even if it does take a lot of maturity to ask ourselves "is it I?" and try to change.
Another thing this book has going for it: the principles are all laid out as a story (it reminded me a bit of [b:The Peacegiver|434535|The Peacegiver How Christ Offers to Heal Our Hearts and Homes|James L. Ferrell|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388383083s/434535.jpg|2243662] that way). Yes, the story may be on the hokey side (the characters do a lot of sitting in an office and talking to each other -- great literature this is not), but since it's simply a vehicle for the reader to learn the principles, it does its job deftly: this book is one of those quick, read-in-a-day type books.
I hope the ideas stick with me for awhile. If I find myself still thinking about this in a couple of weeks maybe I'll come back to this review and bump it to five stars.