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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Enhancing Self-Esteem by Mark J. Warner, Alpha Group, Alpha Development Group, John N. Jones ISBN: 0-02-862930-2 Publisher: Alpha Communications Pub. Date: 11 December, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Waste of 265 Pages
Comment: I bought this book hoping I'd at least find an ounce of motivation or a way to work on my view of myself. I was dead wrong.
The book ended up being a huge jumble of pop psychology and uninspirational quotes. It also asks you to write out past failures and successes, as if doing that would somehow show you how to work on things in the present and the future. It however, does not give you any information on how to work on the present. The book ends up being a quick self-evaluation, which with people with low self-esteem really isn't going to mean much. It also is too focused on how you, the reader, reacts to others. I thought this was SELF-esteem and not interpersonal relationship help.
Rating: 1
Summary: A Complete Idiot's Guide to Writing a Review of this book
Comment: I am always wary of books that begin with the accolade of 'The Complete Idiot's Guide' as it suggests that those who buy such books, are, indeed complete idiots.
Not believing myself to be in this category but being in search of ways to boost morale and productivity and teamwork I bought this book after having flicked through and found the contents to be short and well illustrated with anecdotes, humour and other such features to make this appealing to even the most reluctant readers.
This book certainly has all of those things and at a basic level it does a useful job in highlighting a number of features which help in enhancing self-esteem. The book is clearly well meaning but misses it's target by a long way.
My understanding of what this book is meant to be is as a self-study workbook. To some extent it is but really does not go far enough to help those who suffer from lack of self-esteem. Let me give one very crucial example. The author cites S.W.O.T. analysis, the first being Strengths, the second being weakness. The reader is asked to list his or her greatest strengths and serious weaknesses. However, there is no guidance given as to how someone should determine those, and, given that those who lack self-esteem do not feel good about themselves to begin with, they will find it hard to list strengths and will feel that they have more than three weaknesses.
The book does serve as an introduction to the problem and does point the way to some exercises that can be done to assist in enhancing self-esteem. For anyone serious about tackling this problem this is not the book for them.
...or of course I could just be a complete idiot and have missed the point of this book alltogether. Hmmm
Rating: 1
Summary: Not very helpful for raising self esteem
Comment: I found this book pretty much useless for boosting my self esteem. The advice given in the book was poor with silly, little quotes and poems. I felt that it was lacking good, hard research on low self esteem and how to improve one's self esteem. Unfortunately, there is nothing that I took away from the book to help me with that.
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Assertiveness (Complete Idiot's Guide To...) by Jeff Davidson ISBN: 0028619641 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: November, 1997 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conquering Fear and Anxiety by Sharon Heller, Brenda K. Wiederhold ISBN: 002862727X Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 08 June, 1999 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reinventing Yourself by Jeffrey P. Davidson, Jeff Davidson, Marcia Wieder ISBN: 0028640055 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 15 February, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Breaking Bad Habits (2nd Edition) by Suzanne Levert, Gary R. McClain, Jane S. Ferber ISBN: 0028639863 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 08 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: The Complete Idiot's Guide(R) to a Healthy Relationship (2nd Edition) by Judy Kuriansky ISBN: 0028642066 Publisher: Alpha Books Pub. Date: 18 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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