The Unfair Advantage

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The "Unfair Advantage" doesn't let you get away with this. You don't read this book, you do it. Have your pen or pencil ready, as you will be filling in a lot of spaces doing the exercises. The diagrams and exercises will unambiguously show you how and where you are doing yourself in. And how to rectify it. And some of those exercises are just plain cunning.

The book is based on the ideas of Albert Ellis's Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (i.e. it's not one of those business hype books, or some New Age spiritual awakening type book - it is legitimate psychology). It tackles problems of depression, anger, rage, inadequacy, embarrassment, anxiety, shyness, inferiority and hurt.

The only thing I didn't like about it was the title - the only "Advantage" is to yourself, and I can't see anything "Unfair" about it. The author states what the working title for the book was, "You're not a sh#t, and I can prove it". This equates with Ellis's ideas e.g. that shyness is a high class term for sh#thood.

I think the working title more accurately reflects the book's content. Perhaps it's time for a new edition, changing only the title of this amazingly well thought out book.

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