
Four Seconds
All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want
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Narrated by:
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Chris Sorensen
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By:
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Peter Bregman
Peter Bregman, author of the Wall Street Journal best-seller 18 Minutes, offers strategies to replace energy-wasting, counter-productive habits that commonly derail us with truly effective ones.
The things we want most - peace of mind, fulfilling relationships, to do well at work - are surprisingly straightforward to realize. But too often our best efforts to attain them are built on destructive habits that sabotage us. In Four Seconds, Peter Bregman shows us how to replace negative patterns with energy boosting and productive behaviors. To thrive in our fast-paced world all it takes is to pause for as few as four seconds - the length of a deep breath - allowing us to make intentional and tactical choices that lead to better outcomes. Four Seconds reveals:
- Why listening - not arguing - is the best strategy for changing someone's mind
- Why setting goals can actually harm performance
- How to use strategic disengagement to recover focus and willpower
- How taking responsibility for someone else's failure can actually help your team
Practical and insightful, Four Seconds provides simple solutions to create the results you want without the stress.
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Not what I expected :)
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brilliant text, painful reading
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Many thanks for daily changes to be better.
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This Book is Packed with Great Content!
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Practical, entertaining and easy to access...
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At least one thing for everyone
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Couldn't finish it
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Specifically, the problems I had with this book include...
1.) Misleading Title and description...
The name and desciption of the book suggest it is focused on the particular topic of how you can better control your behavior and improve your life and relations by stopping yourself (for say, "four seconds") and (doing something). There is a chapter or two in the book on this, but the author then rambles, and on, flitting incoherently from one topic to the next. The rest of the book is...
2) Disorganized - This book presents a seemingly randomly presented collection of disjointed mini-lectures, with no overarching organizing structure to provide a coherent organizing principle or focus.
3.) Poor narrator / narration. The narrator is just terrible, with a voice like Tennessee Tuxedo, apparently capable of a grand total of ONE whiny inflection besides just reading out loud in a plain nasally voice. This alone makes the book a tough slog.
4.) Uneven - Another reviewer said this book is like a bunch of blog posts, and that's a fair description. This book does read like a blog, where whenever the author happened to think of something, he just added it on, and then served up the pile.
5.) Superficial - as in any book where the author flits like a butterfly from flower to flower, from how to ask for a raise (one of the weakest lectures), to how to console upset people, a bromide as to how to manage Email (really? another book with a diatribe about Email?), how to rationalize fad diets (and fad management techniques) and dozens of others, the treatment is necessarily superficial.
In summary, if you just to turn off, say, Howard Stern, or whatever rubbish fills the air on your car radio, and turn on some positive noise instead; offering well intentioned and uplifting intentions, this book is good material.
IF however, you want...
...something which is meaningfully specific,
...organized in a structure which facilitates comprehension and retention,
...and well read by a professional narrator so as to be able to tolerate listening at all,
here are a few better books just off the top of my head...
~ HOW TO WIN FRIENDS AND INFLUENCE PEOPLE - Dale Carnegie
~ CHANGE ANYTHING - by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, et al.
~ HOW TO FAIL AT ALMOST EVERYTING AND STILL WIN BIG - by Scott Adams
~ HOW ADAM SMITH CAN CHANGE YOUR LIFE - by Russ Roberts
~ THE MYTH OF MULTITASKING - by Dave Crenshaw
A wandering generality
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Irritating narrator.
Take a pass.
Timed Out
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There's nothing revelatory in there, and the narration is slow and patronizing.
Childish both in content and narration
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