The Confidence Course: Sevens Steps to Self-Fulfillment: Seven Steps to Self-Fulfillment - Brossura

Anderson, Walter

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0061094536 ISBN 13: 9780061094538

Casa editrice: Perennial, 1998

Riassunto

An inspiring step-by-step guide to overcoming self-doubt and achieving personal and professional success.

Based on his popular course at the New School for Social Research in New York City, inThe Confidence Course the former Marine, renowned storyteller and editor ofParade Walter Anderson teaches you how to choose what you want to be. In 20 interactive lessons, complete with excercises and real-life examples, Anderson offers rules to live by that can positively transform your life.

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L'autore:

Walter Anderson has been editor of Parade since June 1980. He is a member of the U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Sciences, and he serves on the boards of Literacy Volunteers of America, the National Center for Family Literacy, the National Dropout Prevention Fund, Very Special Arts, the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, and PBS.

He received a 1994 Hortio Alger Award, for which he was nominated by the late Norman Vincent Peale, and the Jewish National Fund's Tree of Life Award, which he received from Elie Wiesel. He lives in White Plains, New York, with his wife Loretta. They have two children.

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""The confidence Course" is real, not psychobabble. Walter Anderson shares practical, insightful advice based on real-life experience. It touches people -- and it works. It's not the usual 'feel-good' counseling that doesn't last." -- Alexandra Penney"For those afflicted with self-doubt, "The Confidence Course" is as sharp as a surgeon's scalpel and as sweet as salvation. It shows you how to reach down into your own pain and mine it for the jewels within." -- Andrew VachssBased on Walter Anderson's popular course at the New School for Social Research in New York City, "The Confidence Course" teaches you how to make anxiety your ally and overcome crippling self-doubt. In 20 interactive lessons, complete with exercises and real-life examples, renowned storyteller and editor of " Parade magazine," Walter Anderson combines his gift for helping people tell stories with his Marine Corps training and presents a series of lessons that become a way of life.There are chapters on simple and practical matters like How to Overcome Shyness, How to Handle Mistakes and How to Handle Criticism, as well as larger lessons like Why Am I So Angry?, The Abuse of Love, Believe in Something Big and How to Choose the Life You Want.Called the Dale Carnegie of our time by " Kirkus Reviews ," Anderson has filled the book with appealing epigrammatic principles and rules to live by." The Confidence Course" will take its place on the bookshelf alongside" How to Win Friends and Influence People." "The Confidence Course" is a powerful and inspiring book, written with passion and immense strategic sense. It provides a complete guide to a successful life written by someone who knows firsthandwhat it's like to make it from the bottom." -- Sylvia Ann Hewlett, president, National Parenting Association"Walter Anderson's character and sense of ethics infuse the confidence course with a love like that of a child for its mother. What he has to say is deep and penetrating, not for all seasons but forever." -

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0061094536
• ISBN 13: 9780061094538
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 260