John Sterne

This is a great book. Great advice... Great rules.

Reviewed: 05-31-18

Whether you subscribe to the golden rule, the silver rule or any other positive philosophy of life. You will find something of value in this book.

Many things will be familiar. Many things you already know, intrinsically., but to have them in one place... Genius!!!

The lessons contained and the many references to the stories of the Bible can get irritating for non Christian types but the stories are apt analogies and definitely contain ancient wisdom, which I think all people possess in some quantity.

I preferred the more scientific approach of the beginning of the book than the philosophy of the end, but then much of the social sciences are composed more of philosophy and anecdote than science as a matter of course and religion is, basically, the same thing. This coming from a psychologist is understandable and reflects his world view as well as the great wisdom of the homo-sapien species.

The lessons contained are timeless classics and modern in approach and application which is a great feather in the cap of the author. Thank you for a somewhat dry but inspiring read.

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Michael Lewis hits it out of the park again!!!

Reviewed: 10-27-17

Loved every moment. Intriguing story, awesome delivery, excellent narrative. The travesty that is HFT has been foisted upon honest hard working investors by crooked regulations, expedient legislators and backroom judges, winks and nods.

Time to simplify the whole mess and get the crooks, which is what I call ALL INTERMEDIARIES by enabling all individuals, institutions and and investors to exchange shares directly without exchanges, brokers or financial institutions of any kind in between.

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Great book. Wisdom and insightful truths portrayed

Reviewed: 06-05-17

This was a great book. Sowell is brilliant!
Truth hurts when weirded against those whose only claim to fame, and whose sense of right and wrong are derived exclusively from like minded peer review and agreement.
This book exposes the truth behind the arguments of the established intelligencia and its often fatal downfall of not being able to stand up to real world testing, or auditable results based outcome analysis.

Sowell quite correctly points out that left wing Intellectuals purport that victimhood is an acceptable even required context through which the poor, racial minorities along with ender and sexual orientation based arguments find moral justification. Particularly in the case of the impoverished. Theorys, and arguments which don't hold up under further scrutiny, but whose justification comes from the very process of like minded peer confirmation that gave rise to the ideas in the first place. Talk about "overfitting" on a societal scale!

Sowell's points are clear and we'll articulated. The book is well written if just a tiny bit long winded...

I hope he writes another on the same subjects delving deeper into the counterfactual nature of intellectuals(in this context) arguments.

I'd really like to see reasoning and outcomes win out over our long history of good moral intent and disastrous results brought upon our world from the minds of those who may mean well, but whose opinions don't stand up to scientific and outcome based testing.

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waste of time. Audio Assualt! terrible

Reviewed: 04-03-17

These guys deserve an academy award for portraying the big wannabe jock-losers EVER!!!

This clip, I won't bestow the honour of calling it a book, might be the worst drivel I've heard yet. I suggest the authors start selling Sham-Wows!!! It's that cheesy!!!

I'm definitely returning it. Do not bother getting this one. Its a bad sales pitch, by puffy blow-hards.

Audible do yourself a credibility favour.... stop offering this title.

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Great book on human psychological fallacies

Reviewed: 01-16-17

well compiled book on everyday psychological fallacies of the human mind. we delude ourselves all the time and don't even realize it. I enjoyed it!

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A gift for listeners or a vanity project?

Reviewed: 12-14-16

Seriously??? I think I'd rather get mismatched used socks as a gift.

This might be the lamest "gift" I have ever received.

Honestly, NOTHING would have been better or even a spam email saying thanks for being a subscriber. Happy holidays would have been better. Wow!

I really don't like being negative... but this blows!

And for the narrators, I know these are your anecdotal memories, and I actually appreciate you sharing them... that they are important to you, that, in some cases, they are a part of the very fabric of your being.... I respect your memories and thoughts.... but to me, a listener who doesn't even consume fiction, this seems like little more than a vanity project.

The stories were weak, only one or two were the slightest bit compelling or interesting although most were reasonably well written and very well narrated.

In the end, I felt like I was stuck in the home of an overzealous, octogenarian shutterbug looking at projected slidereel photos of friends and relatives from the 40s, long dead and unknown to me. important to the Old Codger but no one else.

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3 people found this helpful

entertaining and educational... Great!!!A++

Reviewed: 09-10-16

loved it... great structure and information...

entertaining as well as educational... well done!

impressively well structured, and while gaps remain, this course connects many dots....

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basically rehash of nonviolent communication

Reviewed: 04-04-16

rehash of nonviolent communication.... some annoying self composed music strewn in.... doesn't add to the title....

the author makes some assumptions in part 2 which are actually the very same judgements he counsels against...
I respect his methods and system but the author has a significant bias which he, himself fails to overcome in this work.

I expected better from this author.
that said I still admire and wish to emulate the principles of nonviolent communication.

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11 people found this helpful

Great book! very helpful

Reviewed: 04-01-16

this book is terrific! I think it would be a great companion to Feeling Good together by David Burns and the two books emotional Intelligence and social intelligence.

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love it!

Reviewed: 03-31-16

excellent history of the recorded ancient world. from Mesopotamia up to the beginning of the holy Roman empire under Constantine.

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