Helping Me Help Myself - One Skeptic, Ten Self Help Gurus, a Year on Brink of Comfort Zone

Zusatztext "A delightful! Plimptonesque exercise in immersive journalism...sharp! irreverent and endearingly screwed-up." Informationen zum Autor Beth Lisick, author of the New York Times bestseller Everybody into the Pool , is also a performer and an odd-jobs enthusiast. She has contributed to public radio's This American Life and is the cofounder of the monthly Porchlight storytelling series in San Francisco. Klappentext Beth Lisick has had a lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or that remotely claims to provide self-empowerment. But on New Year's Day 2006, she wakes up finally able to admit that something has to change. Determined to confront her fears head-on, Beth sets out to fix her life by consulting the multimillion-dollar-earning experts. In Chicago, she gets proactive with The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People . In Atlanta, she struggles to understand why "women are from Venus." She gamely sweats to the oldies on a weeklong Cruise to Lose with Richard Simmons on the high seas of the Caribbean. Throughout this yearlong experiment, Beth tries extremely hard to maintain her wry sense of humor and easygoing nature, even as she starts to fall prey to some of the experts' ideas—ideas she thought she'd spent her whole life rejecting. Zusammenfassung Beth Lisick has had a lifelong phobia of anything slick, cheesy, or that remotely claims to provide self-empowerment. But on New Year's Day 2006, she wakes up finally able to admit that something has to change. Determined to confront her fears head-on, Beth sets out to fix her life by consulting the multimillion-dollar-earning experts. In Chicago, she gets proactive with The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People . In Atlanta, she struggles to understand why "women are from Venus." She gamely sweats to the oldies on a weeklong Cruise to Lose with Richard Simmons on the high seas of the Caribbean. Throughout this yearlong experiment, Beth tries extremely hard to maintain her wry sense of humor and easygoing nature, even as she starts to fall prey to some of the experts' ideas—ideas she thought she'd spent her whole life rejecting. ...

Product details

• Authors: Beth Lisick, Lisick Beth
• Publisher: William Morrow
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.01.2009
• EAN: 9780061710735
• ISBN: 978-0-06-171073-5
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 17 mm
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Science: general issues, Biography: general, Memoirs, Advice on careers and achieving success, Gender studies: women and girls, Memory improvement and thinking techniques, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / General, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Happiness, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Memory Improvement, SELF-HELP: General, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Self-Esteem, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Success, SOCIAL SCIENCE: Social Work