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Taming Your Gremlin Revised: A Surprisingly Simple Method for Getting Out of Your Own Way

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Author: Richard David Carson
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco
Category: Book

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Sales Rank: 5602

Media: Paperback
Edition: Rev Sub
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 192
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.6 x 0.5

ISBN: 0060520221
Dewey Decimal Number: 158.1
EAN: 9780060520229
ASIN: 0060520221

Publication Date: September 1, 2003
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4 out of 5 stars

A useful resource July 27, 2007
12 out of 12 found this review helpful

Carson has written an excellent self-help guide, with a wealth of useful suggestions for taming the negative effects of your 'gremlin' (your internal sense of self-doubt). The book is explained in a suitably direct manner with a simple, user-friendly tone. There are a number of different exercises that will be sure to keep the gremlin on a leash (subject to regular practise) and stop him from pissing on your bonfire. The chief criticism would be that he goes a little over the top with the whole gremlin metaphor at times. Still, some of the tips are extremely useful, such as 'never expose your gremlin to bright light', 'never get your gremlin wet' and (apparently by far the most important) 'NEVER feed it after midnight'. Wise words indeed.

5 out of 5 stars

A fantastic book November 2, 2006
38 out of 38 found this review helpful

This is a fantastic book. If an alien came from another planet and needed a handful of books to find out what it is like as a human being - this would be in his shopping basket! The trouble with that scenario is that the alien would then know more than you do and yet you are a human being!

In "Taming Your Gremlin" Rick Carson exposes and uncovers the most significant reason for human suffering and gives us countless strategies for being one step ahead at all times.

Your Gremlin is the narrator in your head. Simply by noticing your Gremlin you are shining a light on your repetitive and habitual erroneous thoughts. With relaxed detachment and by observing your thinking rather than constantly analysing you no longer need to be imprisoned by your mental chatter. Witnessing the movements of the mind as an independent observer, you realise that you do not have to believe your thoughts - you begin to see how repetitive your thinking can become and how absurd it can be.

Your Gremlin is cunning, it makes things up, fantasizes and draws you into inevitable internal fights - mental torture designed to confuse you into a spiral of depressive thought processes that sap the energy and life from you. When your Gremlin is trapping you it makes you adopt a whinging, poor me attitude, thriving on negativity and leading you into inner turmoil away from the natural you. This can be done so subtly that you start to convince yourself that the `natural you' is what your Gremlin tells you rather than who you really are! In other words your Gremlin is so persuasive that you don't always know when you are being fooled.

Simply noticing your Gremlin (or internal chatter) is a huge step toward taming it. Fighting your Gremlin is pointless - it is far too shrewd - you need to diminish your Gremlin by shining the light on it, by being aware, by taming it.

If you stop to consider what it would be like if all your thoughts came out of your mouth as they enter your mind you can see how those around you might label you insane! And yet, even though we know others would find our constant internal chatterbox absurd we still listen to it and worse still we believe it!

"Taming Your Gremlin" offers you an inner peace and calm that most humans don't know exists. I highly recommend this book to you - it will revolutionise your thinking and transform your life.

5 out of 5 stars

Awesome April 24, 2004
22 out of 28 found this review helpful

Incredible book - very simply written.
I've bought about 6 copies andgiven them to people. I've seen it change lives.

5 out of 5 stars

It really makes you think! October 7, 2003
27 out of 29 found this review helpful

Putting Gremlins into boxes - how weird I thought... then I read it and can picture my Gremlin, find him (yes, mine is a male!) and put him in a box or simply ignore him. A fun way of looking at issues that have probably bugged you for some time (sometimes even without your realising it).

5 out of 5 stars

Very Useful December 28, 1998
32 out of 35 found this review helpful

I'm only about half way through this book, and am not a habitual reader of self-help stuff (my sister recommended this), but I'd have to give this one a serious thumbs-up. I made a funny connection to an old novel by Colin Wilson called "The Mind Parasites," which also posits the existence of a hostile voice within us that kills joy and sows self-doubt.

I think it's interesting that the author distinguishes the Gremlin from Freud's superego and Berne's inner Parent -- as one of the reviewers said above, the notion that the Gremlin is really not us is very interesting and potentially liberating.