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Get Ready
- A Champion’s Guide to Preparing for the Moments That Matter
- De: Buzzy Cohen
- Narrado por: Buzzy Cohen
- Duración: 5 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 58
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 52
Beloved Jeopardy! champ Buzzy Cohen reveals the eccentric yet effective training method he developed to prep for the show, and empowers listeners to apply these techniques to train for their own challenges in this one-of-a-kind Audible Original.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Here's How to Prepare for *Anything*
- De Fritz Holznagel en 07-03-20
- Get Ready
- A Champion’s Guide to Preparing for the Moments That Matter
- De: Buzzy Cohen
- Narrado por: Buzzy Cohen
Double Threat
Revisado: 06-27-20
I was hoping this book would give me some truly helpful guidance in the art of preparing for real-life challenges, or at least an enjoyable five hours hanging out with the zippy personality that made Buzzy such a standout on Jeopardy! As it happens, I got both. What could have been just a throwaway book by a niche celebrity turns out to be a solid, useful manual, full of practical info that goes down easy thanks to Buzzy's stylings. It's one thing to know a lot of facts and be fast on the buzzer — it's another to suss out how to work smarter so as to be better prepared than your competitors, then distill what you've learned into lessons that are usable in any field. Thanks, Buzzy!
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One Dead Dean
- A Carl Burns Mystery, Book 1
- De: Bill Crider
- Narrado por: Dean Sluyter
- Duración: 6 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 33
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 32
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 32
Hartley Gorman College, in Pecan City, Texas, is hardly a bastion of serious scholarship. The little Baptist school is more interested in shielding its students from the evil influence of The World, The Flesh, and The Devil than in turning out future Nobelists. But its staff, by and large, is worthy of a more demanding institution; they are victims of a glutted market in Ph.D.s and they do the best they can.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Compliments to the chef
- De Constant reader en 01-12-13
- One Dead Dean
- A Carl Burns Mystery, Book 1
- De: Bill Crider
- Narrado por: Dean Sluyter
Compliments to the chef
Revisado: 01-12-13
This is a droll, amusing little mystery with a nice collection of colorful, more or less comical characters. The narrator does an especially good job of handling the varied character voices. … I wish the previous reviewer had spent one minute consulting a dictionary before attacking the narrator's pronunciation. I heard no mispronounced words. My dictionary (Webster's New World) shows three accepted pronunciations of "pecan," including PEE-kan.
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Psychotherapy Without the Self: A Buddhist Perspective
- De: Mark Epstein MD
- Narrado por: Dean Sluyter
- Duración: 7 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 36
Immersed in Buddhist psychology prior to studying Western psychiatry, Dr. Mark Epstein first viewed Western therapeutic approaches through the lens of the East. This posed something of a challenge. Although both systems promise liberation through self-awareness, the central tenet of Buddha's wisdom is the notion of no-self, while the central focus of Western psychotherapy is the self. This book wrestles with the complex relationship between Buddhism and psychotherapy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Challenging and Enlightening
- De Constant reader en 10-07-12
Challenging and Enlightening
Revisado: 10-07-12
True, this is not light listening. Often intellectually dense, it's a collection of articles and essays written over several years, arranged chronologically, and unfortunately the earliest pieces, right at the beginning of the book, are the ones with the most technical language, written for an academic audience before Epstein's writing style had gotten past the doctoral dissertation stage. ***But hang in there!*** As the book progresses, the style lightens up and the concepts get easier to understand.
And what concepts! Epstein is the point man in the investigation of the intersection of Freudian psychotherapy and Buddhist meditative practice. There's just no one else who has thought about the subject so deeply and personally explored it so extensively. And he does it with a deep respect for both perspectives, knocking down many of the myths about both that prevent people from taking advantage of them.
Some highlights:
• Freud recommended a specific listening method for therapists, "evenly suspended attention" … essentially the same wide-open, non-judging, non-interpreting approach as mindfulness meditation. But the instruction was too steep for his disciples to follow, and they immediately dumbed it down, even distorting the English translation of his phrasing.
• Epstein goes deep into the Buddhist concept of "emptiness" and incisively describes the many ways it's misunderstood — in particular, how the narcissist, the depressive, etc., each tend to distort the concept to shore up their neurosis instead of letting it go.
• Epstein also introduces the work of the child psychologist Winnicott, who was new to me, and who brings in very exciting stuff about the playful, open mind of the child and its equivalence to the playful, open mind of the artist, and the "beginner's mind" of Zen.
Much credit goes to the narrator. Sluyter does an outstanding job of vocally breaking down what could otherwise sound like forbiddingly abstract concepts, infusing the material with clarity and energy.
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Fool's Paradise
- Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
- De: Steven Gaines
- Narrado por: Dean Sluyter
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 6
A remarkably revealing profile of the Miami Beach no one knows, a tale of fabulous excess, thwarted power, and rekindled lives that will take its place among the decade's best works of social portraiture. Created from a mix of swampland and dredged-up barrier reef, Miami Beach has always been one part drifter-mecca and one part fantasyland, simultaneously a catch basin for con men, fast-talk artists, and shameless self-promoters, and a Shangri-La for sun worshippers and hardcore hedonists. In Miami Beach it's often said that "if you're not indicted you're not invited." But the city's mad, fascinating complexity resists stereotyping.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating, funny, dishy social history
- De Constant reader en 08-04-12
- Fool's Paradise
- Players, Poseurs, and the Culture of Excess in South Beach
- De: Steven Gaines
- Narrado por: Dean Sluyter
Fascinating, funny, dishy social history
Revisado: 08-04-12
I found "Fool's Paradise" to be a rich, fascinating listen. Gaines is a terrific storyteller, with a gift for remembering that "history" is yesterday's juicy gossip. Starting with the description of a half-million dollar bat mitzvah (for the daughter of a couple of nouveau riche socialites who are not exactly Jewish), he then goes back in time to the cigar-chomping businessmen who drained the swamps, built the great hotels, and wound up in mammoth, ego-fueled feuds.
Then we get the coming of Al Capone and his gangster buddies … the Rat Pack era when Sinatra had his own suite at the Fontainebleau but didn't pay for anything but his hookers … the flamboyantly gay doorman whose pot-inspired reveries gave birth to South Beach's pastel color scheme … the Cuban boatlift and the drug wars of the "Scarface" era … the gay scene, the nightclubs, the models, etc., etc., etc.
Narrator Dean Sluyter brings the right kind of storytelling energy to all this. He voices a big cast of characters (models, mobsters, etc.) in lively fashion, and when the stories verge (often) on the surreal or the absurd, you can sense the raised eyebrow in his voice.
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