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Title: 52 anecdotes, not exactly life-changing...
Review: This book takes Benjamin Franklin's "13 Virtues improvement plan" and expands it into 52 "qualities". Each quality (honesty, sense of humor, grateful, etc) has its own chapter in which the quality is (pedantically) defined, a short anecdote about the author's life that relates to the quality, and then the "lesson". The lesson consists of 1. "Ask to be.. (insert quality here), 2. Affirm your desire to be..., 3. Act as if you're..., 4. List or celebrate... so on and so forth, ad nauseum (52 times).A few of the anecdotes are amusing, but this book is a failure as a self-help volume, more of a disjointed autobiography than anything else. I gave it 2 stars because it is conceivable that there is someone out there that could receive guidance from this book... just not me..
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