I have not tried propagating these ideas much. In one attempt, the learner felt threatened by the ideas when presented directly and defended herself against them, but understood them and valued them highly when she later read them in the nonthreatening novel-like format. If that’s the normal case, they had to present the information in a novel-like format.
I’ve now read the book. The storytelling seems perverted at times, like an infomercial script.
However, I think it’s quite valuable to people like me, who often fail in the way it describes.
I think the selling tactic used is: we can easily call the protagonist on his self-deceptions and defenses against accepting the premise, in a way that we’d hesitate to take ourselves to task over. Because his reasons are so transparently bad, we distance ourselves from his position and accept the authors’. Nice trick.
I have not tried propagating these ideas much. In one attempt, the learner felt threatened by the ideas when presented directly and defended herself against them, but understood them and valued them highly when she later read them in the nonthreatening novel-like format. If that’s the normal case, they had to present the information in a novel-like format.
I’ve now read the book. The storytelling seems perverted at times, like an infomercial script.
However, I think it’s quite valuable to people like me, who often fail in the way it describes.
I think the selling tactic used is: we can easily call the protagonist on his self-deceptions and defenses against accepting the premise, in a way that we’d hesitate to take ourselves to task over. Because his reasons are so transparently bad, we distance ourselves from his position and accept the authors’. Nice trick.