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30 of 32 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Bottom Line on Stan Mann's Excellent Book - Triggers, June 28, 1999
By A Customer
If you need a major breakthrough in an important area of your life, this book is a must read. If you read it, you'll try the techniques. If you try it, you'll get results. Examples? Ok, here's just a couple: Weight Maintenance - for years I have been on the old roller coaster - gain 20 pounds, lose 20 pounds, gain 30 pounds, etc. We have a bridge group. One evening I started to reach for the peanuts - our host always has some kind of fattening goodies on the table. At the point of no return (you just can't have one handful), I remembered what I learned in Triggers. I DID NOT EAT A SINGLE PEANUT - NONE!! I've maintained my weight since that evening two years ago, under a lot of tempting situations. Peak Performance - you've probably read the books and listened to topics on how to pull up a peak performance anytime you want to. This was difficult for me. Example: OK, I was preparing a speech of introduction for a nationally-known motivational speaker. My rule - no more than 2-3 minutes, if that. I knew I could do a good job, but good was not enough for me. Once again, I used a technique from Triggers. The audience was pleased, the speaker appreciative and I was feeling great! If you are committed to continuous improvement in your personal and/or your professional life, buy Triggers today.END
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Letter from an enthusiastic reader, January 8, 2005
From: "Chris & Christy" <lakesell1@cox.net>
To:
Subject: Thank you Stan Mann
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 09:33:41 -0700
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1437
Thank you for writing the book Triggers. Thank you Thank you Thank you.
This book is what I have been searching for to help motivate myself. I have read a number of other self motivating books. They have not worked for me.
It is hard to get motivated to help yourself (through words of motivation by some else) if you are NOT MOTIVATED.
But Triggers takes a whole new approach. It's not about motivation through motivation, it's about reprogramming the way we motivate ourselves.
I am a stay at home mom with two kids. My house is always a mess, my kids are grumpy by the end of the day and losing the baby fat I gained, HA, NO TIME OR ENERGY.
I needed motivation to start reclaiming myself and my family. I am not done reading Triggers as of yet, though I can't put it down, and already my life has changed.
For example I tried the "Double Trigger" method to help me get motivated to clean my house. I am not kidding when I say it worked with in 30 minutes. I went from the sick feeling of having to clean my MESS of a house to completely cleaning my stove (top to bottom) and everything else that needed to be pickup, dusted, vacuumed or wiped down. Just 30 minutes after performing the "Double Trigger" method on my self.
Today is September 10, 2004 and this book was published in 1987. Almost twenty years later you are still helping people through this tough process of self motivation. All I can say is, "Stan you are the Mann!" Thank you, and I can not wait to finish this book and start living the way I want to live.
Sincerely,
Christy Mikesell
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4 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
NLP Stolen and repackaged, May 23, 2007
In his introduction, Mann quickly and quietly admits that the techniques put forth in his book were taught to him at a seminar. He does not mention the name of the techniques, the teachers, or the fact that anyone, not just therapists, can attend such a seminar and learn these for him/herself. Thereafter the book is written in a way that tacitly gives Mann full credit for the techniques and results.
The field is NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. Look it up if you haven't heard of it. It's a huge, dynamic field in which this book is not even known. The 'triggers' he writes of are ANCHORS, and while anchoring is a very useful tool it is just a small part of NLP.
Now, if Mann had actually accomplished something new or had extraordinary results using anchors I would not begrudge his attempt to take credit for others' discoveries, because we are all standing on the shoulders of giants to some degree. But the results are not special, and his use of anchors is not new or unique. In fact, much of the information is misleading or incomplete, leading to inferior results.
By limiting his clients and readers just to anchors, instead of the whole spectrum of NLP methods, Mann is stunting their growth. Trying to use anchoring as a one-size fits-all solution is like driving a car only in first gear: it's a lot faster than walking, but a lot slower than using the full range of speeds.
Mann intentionally and maliciously keeps readers ignorant of the full spectrum of NLP methods and practitioners by never naming NLP, by disguising anchors as "triggers", and by omitting any details about his own training or the huge number of other books on the subject. My guess is this was an attempt to feature him as the sole source of information and products about 'triggers.'
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by Dan Kennedy
