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The author of "Reality Therapy" and "Take Effective Control of Your Life" shows readers how to gain strength and self-esteem through positive behaviour.
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Very few of us realize how much we choose the misery in our lives. Read the first page
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book starting me running 18 years ago in order to obtain a "positive addition" which is a repetitive activity that you do non-self-critically that has a beneficial effect on your mind and/or body. The author suggests that a positive addiction can forge new neuronal connections in the brain to help you think better and more creatievely. The main addictions discussed are running and meditation but there are many others including such arcane things as putting on makeup! This book was one of the early books to describe the "runner's high" which others have documented. Because of my desire to experience this and other benefits, I began a lifetime program of exercise and other types of self-improvements. Don't let the book's "old" publishing date put you off--newer self-help books are not necessarily better. I've often thought that this book's approach might especially benefit the so-called "addictive" personality, but I think all of us need to find ways to alter our consciousness without harming ourselves. This book has one of the keys.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Even though this book was published along time ago it is without doubt a book that can change your life. I was initially put off the book after reading the first chapter as he used the term weak to refer to people but as I read on I could see that he did not mean this in a disrecptful manner. The advice is so spot on and he keeps the message very simple. I have been running everyday now for one hour and the difference in my life is phenomenal. I am more productive,I have better relationships, I have far more energy, I sleep better and overll I am so much happier. After I get back from my early morning run I am on a high and that high seems to last all day. It is advisable to start slowly and build up gradually over a period of weeks and months so that your body can adjust to the exercise. Reading the book helped me to motivate myself to run every day and I am so glad I read this book. Do yourself a huge favour and buy this book.
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63 of 66 people found the following review helpful
Thought-provoking and potentially life-changing
21 Aug 1998
Format:Paperback
This book starting me running 18 years ago in order to obtain a "positive addition" which is a repetitive activity that you do non-self-critically that has a beneficial effect on your mind and/or body. The author suggests that a positive addiction can forge new neuronal connections in the brain to help you think better and more creatievely. The main addictions discussed are running and meditation but there are many others including such arcane things as putting on makeup! This book was one of the early books to describe the "runner's high" which others have documented. Because of my desire to experience this and other benefits, I began a lifetime program of exercise and other types of self-improvements. Don't let the book's "old" publishing date put you off--newer self-help books are not necessarily better. I've often thought that this book's approach might especially benefit the so-called "addictive" personality, but I think all of us need to find ways to alter our consciousness without harming ourselves. This book has one of the keys.
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful
This Book a Positive Experience for Me
5 May 2004
Format:Paperback
This book was a positive experience for me.
It helped me become more focussed at work and at home, and helped me realize that even a daily walk or some significant activity every day is vitally important. Human beings were not born to sit around, we were born to be active. Just look at the famous artists who lived into to their 90's because they loved what they did like Chagall and Grandma Moses. If you are positively addicted to what you do, then you will live a long life and love it. The key is finding your niche and running with it. A book should be written about people who love their careers and how this positive addiction helps to fuel other parts of their lives.
It helped me become more focussed at work and at home, and helped me realize that even a daily walk or some significant activity every day is vitally important. Human beings were not born to sit around, we were born to be active. Just look at the famous artists who lived into to their 90's because they loved what they did like Chagall and Grandma Moses. If you are positively addicted to what you do, then you will live a long life and love it. The key is finding your niche and running with it. A book should be written about people who love their careers and how this positive addiction helps to fuel other parts of their lives.
My father gave me this book. It is an easy read, but a smart book.
Jeffrey McAndrew
author of "Our Brown-Eyed Boy"
19 of 22 people found the following review helpful
Short little book but worth a read.
29 May 2000
Format:Paperback
Glasser examines the idea of Positive Addiction with running at the very centre of the book. Book is not that long, but tends to be somewhat repetitive... but still worth a read. Not Glasser's best book but even at that, the ideas he shares are good.. and the positive addiction idea does trickle into other parts of life, so that someone who is positively addicted to running or swimming or cycling, tends to feel better and can take that good feeling to other things they do. If people became more positively addicted to good relations with others... WOW! what an outcome that would be..and (third time said) Book is well worth a read..
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