| The author fails to address the long process involved or how to respond when those people demanding you do something refuse to accept your "No" the first time | I only rate it 3 stars because the beginning of the book was enjoyable, but I found myself losing interest as the author went through the different scenarios |
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| Also, given the current state of the economy, the whole section on saying "No" in job situations is completely laughable and unrealistic | The majority of these situations hold no interest because I do not encounter them |
It's a very good book, but I think it would be helpful if the author put fewer scenarios and place it with some other advices that could help the reader.
13| The theme at the heart of this book is the eye-opening truth of "When you say yes continually to others, you say no to yourself | 11 each time you agree when you don,t want to, you give up a piece of yourself |
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| " The Book of No may be just what you need | I love the idea of establishing personal boundaries and taking control back over life |
Newman does a wonderful job explaining how you can say "no" in different situations without offending other people, hurting feelings, lying, or making excuses.
19| , but things often don't pan out that way in the real world | In overwhelmingly large part, it's a series of example situations with appropriate negative responses, and some brief analysis of the possible motivations and background factors in each |
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| She must have some pretty nasty friends and family based on the scenarios in the book | When you have a sister this is her example always dumping her drama on you so you say "Sorry, I've got my own drama to deal with" what do you do then? I found most of the scenarios to be that way |
it's really not helpful to read that much of scenarios.
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