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Review title: Unclever knockoff with positive reviews by ?friends?
Product review: One might admire "Dan's" ambition in self-publishing this slender volume and in rounding up apparent friends to report glowingly about it. However, that does not leave me very happy.I was hoping for some new insights or strategies for personal habit change and instead found a rehash of Dale Carnegie, Maxwell Maltz, Wayne Dyer, etc. Plus, it is surprisingly poorly written and edited.Got to admit, though: he hooked a lot of readers here (one born every minute, they say). I cannot imagine why Jack Canfield and Brian Tracey lent their names - except that it appears these days publishers are requiring their authors to offer such vague, glowing endorsements of every self-help publication that comes off the press.
