- Paperback: 176 pages
- Publisher: Thorsons (16 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0722533500
- ISBN-13: 978-0722533505
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 12.6 x 1.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 721,283 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
More techniques from bestselling author Jack Black – the Uk’s top motivational speaker – to help the individual achieve success in their personal life.
From the Back Cover
Jack Black is Britain's most dynamic and exciting motivational speaker. People from all walks of life attend his phenomenally successful MindStore: seminars around the country, and the list of people he has helped runs from powerful company directors to some of the country's most successful athletes.
Following on from his first book, Jack now reveals more secrets from the MindStore way of life which will enable you to transform and empower your life for the better. Read this book to discover how to:
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learn to relax
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become more creative
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have more energy
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enjoy better relationships
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rid yourself of bad habits
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improve your memory
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strengthen your learning skills
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boost your health
The power of change lies within you. Unleash it with Jack Black's 'Mindstore for Personal Development'
"Tired? Stressed? Feeling negative about your job? Only capable of 'not bad' when asked about your health? What you need is a dose of Jack Black."
FINANCIAL TIMES
"There was real buzz about the place after Jack's course, an injection of energy."
WILLIAM GRANT & SONS
"His boundless enthusiasm for life leaves you wondering if he puts something in his tea, and if so is there any left."
THE SUNDAY POST
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38 of 40 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Jack Black is a wonderfully enthused speaker and his dynamism comes through in this book - it's full of useful techniques and tools to help keep a positive attitude. So, why the 2 stars? - Because this book basically regurgitates his first one (a much better volume). It adds very little to what has already been said. Buy the first book, buy the tapes, attend his seminars - but don't bother buying this one - you won't be missing anything.
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Useful Techniques, Quite Inspiring
25 Feb 2006
Format:Paperback
I have to disagree with the previous reviewer who gave this book only one star. While self-help books are not for everyone (I'm not usually the sort that would read one either) this one I did find particularly inspiring. You can take what you like from it - believe it all, or take away a few good techniques to take control of you thoughts. The mind is a very powerful thing, and highly open to suggestion, and if you can learn to control your negative thoughts, you can make a difference in your life.
This book, while perhaps more on the side of pop-psychology, nevertheless has some sound psychological techniques in it, even if it does go about them in a more unusual way than you may expect. In fact, these techniques may be easier for many people to work with than the dry and clinical way one would be told by a psychologist at an appointment, even though they'd have the same end result no doubt.
I found it quite inspiring, although I am not "evangelical" about it as the previous reviewer implies I must be. I would recommend this to anyone feeling a bit down, or under motivated, or perhaps just needing a boost in life and some inspiration. It helped me, anyway, and I am not particularly suggestible, being a research scientist.
This book, while perhaps more on the side of pop-psychology, nevertheless has some sound psychological techniques in it, even if it does go about them in a more unusual way than you may expect. In fact, these techniques may be easier for many people to work with than the dry and clinical way one would be told by a psychologist at an appointment, even though they'd have the same end result no doubt.
I found it quite inspiring, although I am not "evangelical" about it as the previous reviewer implies I must be. I would recommend this to anyone feeling a bit down, or under motivated, or perhaps just needing a boost in life and some inspiration. It helped me, anyway, and I am not particularly suggestible, being a research scientist.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Great Book If You Are of The Suggestive Nature....
30 Jun 2005
Format:Paperback
This book is not very good, it is a self help book which from first hand experience, I have seen people go giddy almost like the evangelical church sermon scene in The Blues Brothers.
I'm as open as the next man when it comes to reading 'self help books' but I never enforce thier suggestions - this borders on brainwashing. To quote The Prisoner: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or Numbered. My life is my own.
If you are of the suggestive nature this book will work for you, self help manuals are either good ie Tony Robins or just a lot of assertive words that program your mind to think positively, think of a council estate psychologist seminar and you are halfway there.
Anyone who states that coffee and tea effect your mental balance and have to put themselves into 'foundation' (a sort of trance readers and staff of Mindstore adhere to daily to re-energise and align their chi) for 10-15 minutes today really need their heads looked at.
The author contradicts himself as well, he offers the times 'we' should eat at properly, which according to Doctor's and the Health Foundation are completely wrong - skip breakfast? eat late at night?
I don't know how he does it but people either a) read this and thow it away or b) treat it like the Second Coming (see Blues Brothers above) - it has turned into a cult of some sort and not a healthy one.
After reading this I decided to go by chips and beer and not waste another moment. I would rather go to the pearly gates and tell God that I lived life to the full and not by some psuedo prophet self help guru with delusions of granduer
I urge you to not buy this book. Waste your money on something productive like tabs, beer, porn etc etc etc
I'm as open as the next man when it comes to reading 'self help books' but I never enforce thier suggestions - this borders on brainwashing. To quote The Prisoner: I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or Numbered. My life is my own.
If you are of the suggestive nature this book will work for you, self help manuals are either good ie Tony Robins or just a lot of assertive words that program your mind to think positively, think of a council estate psychologist seminar and you are halfway there.
Anyone who states that coffee and tea effect your mental balance and have to put themselves into 'foundation' (a sort of trance readers and staff of Mindstore adhere to daily to re-energise and align their chi) for 10-15 minutes today really need their heads looked at.
The author contradicts himself as well, he offers the times 'we' should eat at properly, which according to Doctor's and the Health Foundation are completely wrong - skip breakfast? eat late at night?
I don't know how he does it but people either a) read this and thow it away or b) treat it like the Second Coming (see Blues Brothers above) - it has turned into a cult of some sort and not a healthy one.
After reading this I decided to go by chips and beer and not waste another moment. I would rather go to the pearly gates and tell God that I lived life to the full and not by some psuedo prophet self help guru with delusions of granduer
I urge you to not buy this book. Waste your money on something productive like tabs, beer, porn etc etc etc
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