Jack Schafer

This book had about as much warmth as a mathematics formula. It's a how to book with fairly basic insights into people likes. The author worked at the FBI where he had to get people to like him. He wasn't devious ... but coldly calculating and formulaic.

As I am writing this the new Star Wars how Picard is on .... This feels like a book Commander Data would write on how to get people to like you. I loved Data. Data approached his attempts at human behavior from a point of innocence. This author preaches from his pulpit.… (más)

I had so much fun reading this book. Which may be surprising that I am saying this. Because when you think of self-help books, you don't always think "fun". Yet, this book really did won me over. Right from the start it took my a long time to get through the first chapter. The reason is because I kept putting the book down to run to my co-workers to show they a paragraph a had just read and wanted them to read. I learned so much from this book.

To be honest I had picked up this book because I thought it would be interesting reading material to learn from an ex-FBI agent. Yet, again as I said prior that I learned a lot from this book than just reading it. Very practical skills that everyone needs to navigate through today's world. Especially in the technological world that we reside in. We have gotten away from face to face encounters and therefore no one knows how to effectively communicate with one another. It is so sad. Therefore if people knew the signals that they came to others then they could communicate even without words. You have to check this book out.… (más)