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Attracting Terrific People: How To Find - And Keep - The People Who Bring Your Life Joy | 
 enlarge | Author: Lillian Glass
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 143929
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1st
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 224
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6.1 x 0.5
ISBN: 0312180454
Dewey Decimal Number: 646.7
EAN: 9780312180454
ASIN: 0312180454
Publication Date: February 15, 1998
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Do you recognize these Twenty Types of Terrific People?-The Feel-Gooders-The You, You, and You Anti-Narcissists-The Generous Givers-The Non-Judgers-The Good Mouthers-The Self-Respecters-The Class Acts-The Honest Abes-The Lightened-Ups-The Cheerleaders-The Completely Conscious-The Keep-On-Goers-The Emotionators-The Win-Winners-The Loyalists-The Immediate Doers-The Calculated-Risk Takers-The Non-Victims-The Life Livers-The EnlistersIf not, you need to learn about Attracting Terrific People
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 Excellent Book, If You're Ready for It September 14, 2007
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book is unrelentingly positive in outlook, which apparently annoys some of its previous reviewers. Hey, you can't please everyone, and why would you try? That's one of the messages in this book.
People who are looking for a 1-2-3 procedure for meeting 'terrific people' -- as in, "First, say this. Then, look for that. Then add up the score," etc., will definitely be disappointed. It offers a more advanced strategy than that, despite its somewhat 'Hollywood' appearance.
The book is particularly instructive for 'people pleasers' (aka, co-dependents) who have had the very bad habit of selecting friends based on whether they could help the friends, or on whether they could prove themselves worthy by trying to please them. The author, in a very personal style, draws a clear distinction between selecting people for your life because you want to help them, and selecting people for your life because they are great people who can be mutually supportive, great friends, companions, business associates, and more.
Lillian Glass gives a very clear, well written list of multiple types of 'terrific people' and how you can identify them -- something many people need to learn how to recognize. And she gives some very sound advice about what to do when people you thought were 'terrific' turn out not to be.
I would only give this book four stars due to its light presentation and easy reading, but the soundness of its advice, from which I've learned one or two valuable lessons, merits five. I read it several years ago, and it has survived several prunings of my library, with good reason.
If you're ready to give up selecting toxic people and being victimized, by all means buy this book! If you're cynically out to prove that you already know everything and require someone to provide you with step-by-step, manipulative instructions for reeling in the kind of people you desire, look somewhere else.
A good companion book is Glass's "Toxic People." Both are well worth reading and remembering.
Attracting Terrific People August 16, 2006
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Lillian describes in simplistic clarity how easy it is to achieve the essence of living a happy and fulfilling life. I finished the book feeling calm, confident and in control of my outcomes.
Uplifting and Fun April 5, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Although the introduction portion about why it's important to attract terrific people is a bit long, this book offers intuitive and effective advice on interpersonal and communication skills. It's written with lots of energy, enthusiasm, and optimism. An easy read, not dry at all. Lots of insightful statistics and anecdotes. I thought the stories about celebrities relevant and entertaining: after all, celebrities are the professional communicators. If I could learn a couple of important things from a book, that book is well worth its time.
If you don't like this, you probably don't get it. May 19, 2004
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I've read a few negative reviews from customers here on Amazon complaining that Ms. Glass never tells you how to actually attract terrific people. I think the problem is that Lillian's solution is so simple that they miss the point. The fact that they took the time to trash someone's book should suggest that they might need to read it again. It's full of great advice that should be "common sense" but as we all know it is not that common. She didn't strike me as snobby either. Its frankly one of the audio books that I am "suggesting" that all my employees listen to with the statement: "If I thought you needed this, I would not have hired you, but listen to it anyway." I think books like this are far more valuable than any sexual harassment seminar.
 This book attracts Terrible people May 6, 2004
2 out of 10 found this review helpful
The author of this book cleary has a "I'm so much better than you" type of attitude. That's the sort of thing that attracts a lot of negative people to this sort of mumbo-jumbo - people like me...
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