| You can free yourself from the
tyranny of words — and enjoy all the blessings that accompany
that freedom — only
by developing an understanding of what language is and how it works. There
is no other way. And how to develop that understanding is the subject of
You
Must Not Let Them Con You! There's Too Much at Stake.
Here's what several readers of the book had to say about it:
 Fair warning!
Dr. Shapiro, a truly original thinker, will challenge you, instruct you,
and entertain you in this one-of-a-kind book. At times he'll make you uncomfortable.
But above all, he'll make you think. A good and profitable read.
Dr. Shapiro,
obviously a first-rate teacher, has written an exciting and much-needed
book. If I could, I'd make it compulsory reading for all adults. I now
find myself continually arguing with my TV set and listening to everything
with new ears. Next to the Bible, it is the most valuable text for living
I know.
We live in
a world of words, a realm in which the untutored are preyed upon by the
unscrupulous. Without a map to guide us through this mine field of verbal
pitfalls and traps, we cannot distinguish between the genuine and the counterfeit.
We now have such a guide in Dr. Shapiro's new book. With an ever-increasing
verbal torrent from the media, it is a work whose time has come.
Your book is the most stimulating
(and challenging) work that I've come across in a long time. I'm having
a hard time putting it down. Each day I rush home from work to get back
to it . . . Some of the best thinking on the relationship between mind-brain-language
that I've seen. Impressive! More importantly, useful! . . . All in
all: I am loving it. Few things have been as thought-provoking . . .Thanks
for the book. It really means a lot . . .
I consider . . . [your book]
. . . my bible on clear thinking . . . reading your work stimulated me
in entirely new directions . . . what a masterful mind you have!
Dr. Shapiro has his finger
on the pulse of what people are most in need of in this hour of proliferating
verbal garbage. His material is a must to restore the balance that has
been lost between edifying presentations and what has become little
more than intellectual-sounding wind . . . Better than a course on "How
To Listen"; it's instruction that removes the most common obstacles to
hearing, reading, and seeing whatever input comes our way, in a non-biased,
sensible, and useful manner . . . The wisdom of King Solomon is famous
even today; and if he were our current reigning monarch, it's certain that
Dr. Shapiro would be one of his advisors.
What you say to open chapter
13 is VERY true!! We CAN'T be deceived by another unless we are first deceiving
ourselves in some way. The less we deceive ourselves, the more the deceivers
stand out by contrast. . .The issue is so critically important that I can't
stress it strongly enough or well enough.
Other comments have been: “impressive,” “it stretched my mind,” “fascinating,”
“great,” “should be taught to all children at an early age,” “the greatest
self-help book I've ever read,” “it has something in it for everyone,”
“it has the capacity to touch people at any level of need,” “the most intelligent
book I've ever read,” and “it introduces the reader to him- or herself.”
Also, Alan Caruba had this to say about it in BOOKVIEWS:
“You ever wonder if you'll ever figure out what people are really saying?
Well, then pick up You Must Not Let Them Con You! There's Too Much at
Stake, which will teach you how to be alert to folks using language
in a slippery way to put one over on you for whatever reason. It's quite
provocative.”
Perhaps the best recommendation of the book was made in a phone call to
the Foundation. The caller was an on-again, off-again homeless man, who
had picked up a copy of You Must Not Let Them Con You! There's Too Much
at Stake at a San Francisco bookstore. He paid $32.42 for it, including
sales tax. Considering his severely limited financial resources, what the
book cost him constituted a small fortune. But he had browsed through it,
and had decided that he had to have it whatever the price. The reason for
the call, he said, was mainly to thank me for writing the book. As he put
it, for the first time in eighteen years he felt liberated, although he
had read only the first four chapters. Because of that, he added, the book
was worth every penny he had paid for it.
Which struck home with me, because it's been wisely (and widely) observed
that if the reader of a book gets just one good idea out of it, just one
insight, just one piece of wisdom that will enhance the quality of his
or her life, then that volume was worth every penny he or she paid for
it. You Must Not Let Them Con You! There's Too Much at Stake has
dozens upon dozens of such ideas, insights, and wisdom.
If you would like a copy of You
Must Not Let Them Con You! There's Too Much at Stake (paperback edition),
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