I read this while in the Russian River valley in northern California, sitting at the pool. I anticipated really great things from the book because of what it promised. It's about understanding people and predicting their behavior. The person who wrote it made her living reading people - selecting jurors for trials. By her admission, "My most important skill is my ability to see the pattern of someone's personality and beliefs emerge from among often conflicting traits and characteristics." She says it's a "skill that can be learned and applied with equal success by anyone - anytime, anyplace."
I read it all thoroughly when the book first came out, highlighting those things that are important, as I often do. I was disappointed in the book. I recently just re-opened it and looked at the content, wondering why I disliked it so much. It's not actually that bad. It's just that there are walls of text (well it's a book isn't it?) but there wasn't much organization to it. It had a somewhat rambling quality to it. I think there is a lot of interesting and useful content but I don't believe it is written in such a way as to impart practical direction for the person who is reading it. It's a bit of an unfair criticism I suppose because she provides lots of examples. I just had a hard time organizing all that information into a coherent framework that I could utilize or apply. Maybe there is decent content here. It could just be better organized.
Write your own guide for it.
I read this while in the Russian River valley in northern California, sitting at the pool. I anticipated really great things from the book because of what it promised. It's about understanding people and predicting their behavior. The person who wrote it made her living reading people - selecting jurors for trials. By her admission, "My most important skill is my ability to see the pattern of someone's personality and beliefs emerge from among often conflicting traits and characteristics." She says it's a "skill that can be learned and applied with equal success by anyone - anytime, anyplace."
I read it all thoroughly when the book first came out, highlighting those things that are important, as I often do. I was disappointed in the book. I recently just re-opened it and looked at the content, wondering why I disliked it so much. It's not actually that bad. It's just that there are walls of text (well it's a book isn't it?) but there wasn't much organization to it. It had a somewhat rambling quality to it. I think there is a lot of interesting and useful content but I don't believe it is written in such a way as to impart practical direction for the person who is reading it. It's a bit of an unfair criticism I suppose because she provides lots of examples. I just had a hard time organizing all that information into a coherent framework that I could utilize or apply. Maybe there is decent content here. It could just be better organized.
I misunderstood what you said here at first I think - which is to write that practical guide. That would be an interesting thing to write about for somebody that has the expertise. I'm not sure if I do. In either case, between my job and my hobby of participating in the site here, I wouldn't have time for it. I would like to write more at some point on this stuff. Someday hopefully there will be time for it.
Lol why does everyone want me to rewrite this person's book?
Lol why does everyone want me to rewrite this person's book?