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Flawless: The Ten Most Common Character Flaws And What To Do About Them
Offers practical advice on how to overcome ten of the most common character defects, such as, chronic dishonesty and excessive self-regard, and live a happier life
- GenresNonfictionSelf Help
255 pages, Hardcover
First published December 28, 1998
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August 19, 2007
On my quest to become an uber person, I read a lot of self-help books. Snickering aside, this is a good book. It is not a normal "self-help" book in that it helps to identify common character flaws, not just in yourself, but in other people, and gives you techniques for dealing with people who suffer from them. The worst thing is knowing you are a screwup and yet you do nothing about it-choose to be better.
September 24, 2019
Dr. Louis Tartaglia sets out to tell us how to correct our character flaws.
He starts by listing the ten most common character flaws:
1. Addiction to being right
2. Raging indignation
3. Fixing blame and nurturing resentments
4. Worry and fear
5. Intolerance
6. Martyr syndrome
7. Self-regard run riot
8. Inadequacy
9. Hypercritical fault finding
10. Chronic dishonesty
He does a pretty good job of defining these flaws and uses a lot of stories from his personal life and practice, as well as other sources, to illustrate them. It turns out that most of them are, or at least can be, interrelated with each other. The one that appears to be the most basic, the foundation for many of the others, is the last, chronic dishonesty.
He also attempts to give hints about how these flaws can be overcome. But mostly they are just that – hints. Little things you can do or attitudes you can try to change that will help you get rid of most of these flaws, or things you can do to help keep your children from acquiring them. But, as with so many self-help books, the remedies seem few and small in the face of the problems these character flaws can be, or else it is too difficult to understand what he means by them.
He starts by listing the ten most common character flaws:
1. Addiction to being right
2. Raging indignation
3. Fixing blame and nurturing resentments
4. Worry and fear
5. Intolerance
6. Martyr syndrome
7. Self-regard run riot
8. Inadequacy
9. Hypercritical fault finding
10. Chronic dishonesty
He does a pretty good job of defining these flaws and uses a lot of stories from his personal life and practice, as well as other sources, to illustrate them. It turns out that most of them are, or at least can be, interrelated with each other. The one that appears to be the most basic, the foundation for many of the others, is the last, chronic dishonesty.
He also attempts to give hints about how these flaws can be overcome. But mostly they are just that – hints. Little things you can do or attitudes you can try to change that will help you get rid of most of these flaws, or things you can do to help keep your children from acquiring them. But, as with so many self-help books, the remedies seem few and small in the face of the problems these character flaws can be, or else it is too difficult to understand what he means by them.
January 18, 2010
Thanks god alot.
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