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17 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
THE Missing Link, April 5, 2007
If you have done a lot of self help, and didnt take any action get this book. This man learned from the best in the marketing industry, people who influenced millions to spend billions. He truly understands what is needed to create the drive inside of you to CAUSE action.
I say CAUSE because if you follow the program dilligently, and listen actively, you wont have to MAKE yourself take action. It will just happen as a natural process of your new thinking. Heres an example;
I always wanted to hit the gym. Im a skinny guy, and I know that working out will give me more energy and muscle. After reading the first two chapters, I stopped and did every exercise, answered every question he mentioned. This took me an hour, and at the end of the hour I literally got up and went to the gym.
Im not big on hype, but if you really want to change your life pick this book up. Its filled with ideas that will shift your reality far beyond what you thought was ever possible for you.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
It's mostly just silly, February 10, 2009
The author seems to enjoy telling you (many times) how much work he has put into researching and translating these insights from those goofy academics so that you can understand it. Then, after giving you the most basic first insight (you need to understand WHY you should be motivated) he proceeds to come up with the most ludicrous illustrations for his points. For example - if you have a bad attitude, that's like having a negative 10. To get to positive motivation, you have to MULTIPLY that negative 10 by another negative 10 (i.e., tear down the shaky foundation and start with a stronger foundation). Then - you have POSITIVE 100! Do you see the obvious connection between emotion and mathematics? Well, neither did I. Combine that with his faux motivational speech patterns and I stopped listening before the end of the first CD. It's mostly just silly.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Lots of reference and not much content, October 11, 2008
I was quite excited while listening to the first 2 parts of the CD series, when Todd promised that he can increase the listener's motivation and gave numerous references to back up his claims. These references seemed very reputable, they include Peter Drucker, Steve Covey and numerous famous psychologists such as Jung and Marslow.
Well, that is as far as he goes, dropping names. When I carefully listened to what he said he actually didn't quite answer the real question here: how to increase your motivation. I really doubt that he even read the abstract of the researches he named, let alone the entire research. Because if he did he probably would have provided a lot more content then this. The one recurring theme of this audio program is: according to this research and according to that research... then that is as far as it goes.
Another criticism of Mr. Peeler's work is that it lacks integration. He probably dragged the results from various researches and just piled them into his CD. It simply jumps from one idea to another. This made me quite annoyed when I need to, as a listener, do the editing for him in my own head and put the various ideas in the right places.
Furthermore, it has a very heavy religious overtone. In the third part of the CD it talks mainly about why you need to commit to religion to be motivated and implying if you don't you have no chance. I am not against his religious conviction here, however I am against his deceptiveness. What I mean by this is that I am listening to this CD to get a scientific point of view of motivation and not to seek some biased spiritual guidance from Mr. Peeler.
I have graduated with a business and psychology degree and have read widely into the fields of human development and self improvement. I find this book/audio CD to be sub-standard and you are much better to not wasting 5 hours of your time listening to it.
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