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Addresses the core need to know and be known in relation to others.

Revisado: 12-03-23

We researched and thought out. Essential methods and skills intrinsic to the essential social need to know and be known explained and expounded.

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Excellent exploration of the glory of Christ’s grace!

Revisado: 01-14-23

Scriptural musings on the mercy and grace of Christ towards his beloved. Set your mind on things above by meditating with the author upon these blessed truths and their implications towards mankind in the Gospel. That, “a bruised reed He will not break, and smoking flax, He will not quench,” could have such profound explanations and insights into the character of Jesus which we would do well to behold and embrace such a lovely facet of salvation!
This read will bind up the broken heart who discovers Christ’s dealings with bruised reeds and smoking flax! It imparts a balanced dose of validation and conviction to edify and exhort to love and good deeds by exalting and magnifying the love and goodness of Christ in these things!

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A treasure map of gems!

Revisado: 08-31-22

For those who wish to keep their heart diligently, process their emotions, or just become more emotionally intelligent this book is an amazing guide! There are those who have said this book is a good reference book and while I concur with that, I nevertheless discovered consuming this work in its entirety on Audible most helpful. The connections she makes to emotions and how they relate to one another, connecting circumstances that inspire them, and demonstrating actions that result from them, paint a map in its entirety. Once you study the atlas in it’s full scope you see the connections and draw inferences to pathways that you may have otherwise overlooked previously.

Brené Brown’s research and poignancy is brilliant. She has too many quotable quotes to count! While I love listening to the audiobook I have found myself wanting to re-quote so many references found in this work to aid and inspire others in their journey, that I am now buying paper back copies (Yes multiple copies! As it is definitely a giftable book!) just so I can highlight the many excellent references, observations and gems of wisdom to be gleaned here!

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if one wants to learn how to live life morally and ethically, this is not your manual.

Revisado: 08-29-22

My impression of both The 48 laws of power and The Laws of Human Nature, is that Green forms conclusive “laws” using human experience as a basis for moral and philosophical persuasion, otherwise known as humanism.

While deductions of reality based on actual outcomes can seem enlightening, the author himself admits, “all of us have dark sides,” and, “about a third of the laws deal with sketchy manipulative behavior,” that he himself, “would never do.”

So while the author’s aim was that he, “wanted to show people that what you might be encountering today in New York is what you might have encountered in China, Ethiopia, centuries ago,” he also confesses to being, “the victim of some of these laws,” by people who, according to Green, “were very manipulative.”

Indeed to many, “the book is purely about manipulation and taking advantage of others in order to get what one wants.”

So is the book helpful? If one wishes to expose evil schemes of mankind and how the wicked can apparently prosper in this life then one might glean some useful historical quotations. However if one wants to learn how to live life morally and ethically, this is not your manual.

One critic noted:
Machiavellian's are known as part of the Dark Triad. Alongside Psychopaths and Narcissists they are best to be avoided by those who are unwise to their ways.
There is an argument to be informed of evil enough to beware of it’s devices. However a criticism of this book is that in the wrong hands it has become an instruction manual for the most hardened criminal minds, as one former inmate reports:

This book is banned for the same reason that most prison systems banned weights. This particular book had become required reading for prison gangs such as Mexican Mafia and skinheads.. The book started to be used by these gangs as manipulation guides. This book was used as a training manual for mental warfare. I was required to not only read it but I was expected to study it and learn the techniques taught in the book. Prison administrations began to feel that inmates we're learning too much about manipulation and power so they banned it.

As an advocate against domestic violence I have to note several of the “laws”are very disturbing, toxic behaviors that are known to be abusive.

Law 11: Learn to keep people dependent on you (p82-88)
Law 12: Use selective honesty and generosity to disarm your victim (p89-94)
Law 16: Use absence to increase respect and honor (p115-122)
Law 17: Keep others in suspended terror --- cultivate an air of unpredictability! (p123-129)

Others in my camp would concur:

This is an abuse handbook. Sure, it’s also a business handbook, but these tactics are precisely the same as domestic abusers use to control their partners.

For example:

Law 11: Dependency — Isolation and financial dependency
“reduces the opportunity of the abused to be rescued or escape from the abuse”

Law 12: Selective honesty/generosity — Gaslighting
and love bombing
keep an abuse victim from believing that their partner is abusive by making them doubt their own memories and feel more affectionate towards the abuser

Law 16: Absence — Intermittent inattention
is used to destabilize an abuse victim.

Law 17: Air of terror/unpredictability — Explosive anger is a critical part of the cycle of abuse
that keeps abuse victims constantly terrified.

Such behaviour wreaks havoc on relationships, and is even known to cause PTSD in it's victims.
Therefore I would highly advise one not emulate the suggestions given herein.

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This is an excellent book to gain perspective.

Revisado: 07-04-22

The author truly helped me gain clarity in my transition to dating again. As I transitioned out of a long and difficult marriage, it provided the many questions I needed to ask myself to obtain focus and perspective before I jumped back into the dating pool. Often people date for the wrong reasons and they don’t even know it and that contributes to more toxic relationships. This book arms the reader with enough knowledge to avoid pitfalls in future relationships and guides them how to put their heart right so that they can be in a good place to start over again.

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A definite must read! Especially for people who desire intimate relationships.

Revisado: 10-31-20

For anyone who desires healthy intimate relationships or is working through relational difficulties this book is a must read. Safe people gives you the tools to thoroughly assess yourself and others in relationships protect yourself from unsafe people and make yourself the best person that you can be in order to attract and maintain healthy relationships with other safe people in your life.

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