 | Go Suck A Lemon: Strategies For Improving Your Emotional Intelligence By Michael Cornwall
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Product Description
Many of your emotional responses, regardless of how much strength you've given them, can be brought down, deconstructed and reshaped. You will just have to learn how to give your knee-jerk response to emotional stimuli less strength - LESS OF A JERK. To do that you will have to commit to reinventing the way you think and behave. With Go Suck a Lemon, you will approach that task by accepting and then adapting to a no-nonsense style of emotional problem solving. You will learn and use a process of level-headed decision-making. You will try to become more efficient, flexible and open-minded when addressing your emotional problems. You will learn that there is always another emotional option. You will learn to make fact-based observations, something most of us are unfamiliar with doing. You will also incorporate in vivo (in life) exposure, i.e., homework, to encourage you to independently act against your learned thoughts and behaviors. In the end, you will become more informed, increasingly more capable and far more emotionally self-reliant. Instead of being your own worst enemy, you will become your own best friend - your own therapist.
We may be strengthened when we learn to be emotionally self-reliant, to free ourselves from emotional helplessness and our dependence on others for our emotional solutions.
It will take the force of will to do that.
Check out Think Twice: A Learner's Guide to Improved Emotional Intelligence, also available on Amazon!
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #96610 in Books
- Published on: 2012-03-21
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 212 pages
Review
Logical, simple (but not always easy) ideas are presented to help me become more intelligent. I've already started putting some ideas to practice. I have a long way to go, but thank goodness I bought this book on a whim and was made acutely aware of those behaviors I need to focus on adjusting.
Increasing one's emotional intelligence takes practice and patience and the author is great at encouraging the reader to continue their path. This book is a MUST for anyone who continues to believe that others are intentionally "pushing their buttons"! Its a must have addition to a personal growth library!
This book is a wonderful tool for an individual seeking ways to become self-aware of their emotional intelligence! The author has taken several complex strategies and presented them in a way that anyone can understand and implement.
About the Author
Michael Cornwall, PhD, LPCC, CSW is an author, lecturer, clinical supervisor, educator and a therapist in private practice specializing in emotion intelligence / rational emotive behavior (EI / REBT) therapy. He is the author of Go Suck a Lemon: Strategies for Improving Your Emotional Intelligence; Using Articulated Disputation to Improve REBT Outcomes; The Boy in the Pink Coat, Ten Examples of Classical Conditioning; Humour and Others Causes of Death; and Sound Judgment - each of which is available on Amazon, Kindle.
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Most helpful customer reviews
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.Best non-fiction I've read in a l-o-n-g time
By T. Benecke
First and foremost - what a great read! I love the author's writing style. The content really makes you stop and self-assess. The author helped me come to the realization that I am not very emotionally intelligent, BUT...that I can become so. Logical, simple (but not always easy) ideas are presented to help me become more intelligent. I've already started putting some ideas to practice. I have a long way to go, but thank goodnedd I bought this book on a whim and was made acutely aware of those behaviors I need to focus on adjusting.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.Go Suck a Lemon
By desi.derata
It is rare that one finds a book that is not only educational, but also a pleasure to read. Dr. Cornwall explains his problem solving techniques in a way that makes them easy to understand and implement. And, the material is delivered in such an interesting way, that I found myself not wanting to put the book down. If you are interested in improving your 'emotional intelligence', I feel that this book provides an excellent opportunity to do so.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful.An Asset to Any Bookshelf!!!
By PakRatz Haven
I've added this to my own inventory of "self-help" books and to suggest reading for a lot of my clients - I've gotten VERY good reviews off them - after the moans and groans that I suggest they actually "read" - I know, God forbid!!! But they have all thanked me when they finally did what I asked of them - with GREAT reviews of the dialogues in assisting them with their own "emotional intelligence" - And what a conversation piece - but then again, Dr. C is notorious for such things! Great author, Great mentor and GREAT mind! - if only we had a few more psychosocial geeks of his nature! I aspire to be JUST like him when (or if) I EVER grow up!!
Alicia Greene - past student and admirer
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