I chose this book after someones response to my gentle mocking of someone reading ‘NLP for dummies’ on the train – its not a subject I knew much about. Well, I thought I didn’t know much about it. Reading this book though is like reading a collection of many other management and personal development books, there isn’t much in the way of new material here (for me at least, perhaps if you’ve not read so many of those books it might be fresher).
The book is structured around a series of thought exercises to take you through the process of accentuating positive aspects of your life and distancing yourself from the negative. The gist of it is to connect yourself (in your memories and imagination) with good things about your life, and reduce the importance of the bad things.
While I think NLP is a nice structure for learning to be positive about yourself this book concentrates too much on getting accolades from people it has helped and not enough on useful information about how to make it work.
Who should read this book? Anyone who feels like they are stuck in a rut and hasn’t already read a lot of management books.
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