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What Life Should Mean to You

By: Alfred Adler
Narrated by: Chris Matthews
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Adler, along with Freud and Jung, created an entirely new branch of psychology, namely psychoanalysis. What Life Should Mean to You brings his conclusions to a popular audience. It covers adolescence, feelings of superiority and inferiority, the importance of cooperation, work, friendship, love, and marriage.

©2020 Alfred Adler (P)2020 Alfred Adler Personal Development Personal Success Psychology Psychology & Mental Health
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I think a little slower might be better. I tried to slow it down, but the voice of the 0.8 speed sounds weird.

A little fast

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I found this book quite interesting. Many of the author's descriptions and examples matched up with myself and people I know. It has led me to mull over my upbriging with new understanding and how aspects of it has affected me in adulthood in ways I haven't before considered.

The editing of the narration had issues though. Several dozens of times the narrator stopped mid-sentence and repeated something he just said. Sometimes this was due to him saying the wrong word but most of the time it seems to be just a stutter in his speech. It's not horrible but it was frequent, slightly distracting and could have been easily edited out.

Interesting

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I like the author. The reader has a pleasant voice. I would say the performance is of professional quality, but includes lots of errors. There are lots of unedited errors in the recording. The reader repeats many sentences.

The title is kind of misleading. This is a book to advise parents and teachers on how to address under performance of children in school.

I like Adler

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Adler had many discoveries, and many delusions.

Many sentences are repeated, so no sound engineer.

Great Read

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There are hundreds of audio editing programs available to everyone, many of which are free and very user friendly. Keep this in mind as you hear this narrator leave in every mistake he makes throughout the entire book...

mind boggling, really. Excellent content, though.

The content outweighs the narrator

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Needs to be edited for glaring audio errors, but it has a decent thesis that is deep dived

Ok book, terrible audio quality

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Reader for some reason keeps keeps repeating words. That is very disorienting disorienting when listening

Reader is weird

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It’s overall great, just by comparing to the book version, there’s 4 chapters missing, not sure why

Great but Incomplete, 4 chapters missing

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The Narrator reads as one constant run on sentence… no breaks or pauses. Even at a reduced speed it is difficult to transition between points.

Breathe

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I tried so hard to understand the meaning or the story of the book. The words used to explain or to tell the story was too hard and profound. Could’ve used better or easier to understand language narrative. It almost sounds like the writer was trying really hard to make the book “special”.

Gave up. Didn’t finish reading.

Couldn’t understand.

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