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The Superman Syndrome: Why the Information Age Threatens Your Future and What You Can Do About It

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This book blew my mind. Being a lover and user of technology, I never considered the ramifications it has on the culture as a whole. This book opened my mind and heart to a bigger picture of the future that doesn't lose it's humanity to machines. I HIGHLY recommend ANYONE to read this book, especially if you're one that thinks your work is more important than your life, and especially your significant others.

Best selling author Harvey Mackay wrote "Swim With The Sharks", describing the dog-eat-dog world we live in and how to be the dog that eats. In "The Superman Syndrome," Kamm brings the voice of compassion, integrity and openess to the service of humanity as the way we ought to conduct our lives. He provides the counterpoint to Mackay: "Swim With the Dolphins."

When we choose to live a life at speed, not depth, we choose an unrelenting willingness to sacrifice family, love, marriage and all else in pursuit of success. That's the synthesis of what Kamm calls "The Superman Syndrome."

For men in particular, there's an opportunity to cast the Superman uniform aside in favor authentic selfhood and family. Kamm says it's where "the inner and outer journeys are inextricably woven together...to tear down the wall of illusion between personal and professional realms."

Amen.

This book has saved and changed my life.Mr. Kamm speaks directly to me and allows me to take a realistic look at my life and all I have been missing. I have been enlightened,blessed,given permission to finally enjoy my life and be with my innerself.My family has welcomed me back into their lives. I am insisiting that eveyone I know who reads at all buy this book.Bob Kamm has an amazing,simple way to share his insight and simple tools. I never write reviews but this book "The Superman Syndrome" and what it offers the world must be shared and passed on. This is like Moses saying" Have I got 10 new things for all of you"Thank you Bob Kamm from the bottom of my heart!!

This book has saved and changed my life.Mr. Kamm speaks directly to me and allows me to take a realistic look at my life and all I have been missing. I have been enlightened,blessed,given permission to finally enjoy my life and be with my innerself.My family has welcomed me back into their lives. I am insisiting that eveyone I know who reads at all buy this book.Bob Kamm has an amazing,simple way to share his insight and simple tools. I never write reviews but this book "The Superman Syndrome" and what it offers the world must be shared and passed on. This is like Moses saying" Have I got 10 new things for all of you"Thank you Bob Kamm from the bottom of my heart!!

Extraordinary depth of thought yet expressed very clearly. The most comprehensive book of its kind available--moves from a theory about human nature through a fascinating explanation of the underlying meaning of the superman myth, to personal application, then professional and organizational. Very wise on intrapersonal dynamics. A unique applicatiion of the grieving process as part of a liberated person's standard operating mode. Insights could be as valuable to just anybody trying to live their live or apply to business, social, religious and political leaders. Being in business myself, I'm impressed that a business leader, or any leader for that matter, who really "gets" the author's message could revolutionize his way of operating and lead his people to higher productivity, more genuine satisfaction and a better balance between work and family. One of those books that, if it hits you, it hits you hard and you want to share it with a lot of people you know. Author's description of superman made me feel as if he'd been peeking into my psyche, my father's and my grandfather's. Strong stuff...and apparently only the first in a trilogy. More, please, Mr. Kamm!

I expected this book to be about our being inundated with information and how that drives us to be super-human and create something in us that makes us seem sick. What I got was a hundred pages of reviews of Superman (the movies, comics, and other items) and then 200 pages of how to fix our problems as a result of our Superman myth becoming reality. But the real gist of this book is that we are addicted to the working speed of the information age (which is a synonym for today) and, as a result of this, we are denying our most valuable job: to be effective parents. If we change the purpose of our lives to be children-focused, then we will have a better society. No argument there. What he suggests is very much akin to The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, which I happen to agree with. While his writing is imaginative and flowing, in general, I found this book redundant, not very cohesive, and not well organized. I agree with the findings he presents in the last half of the book, but it certainly could be more succinct. The title could better reflect the content.