the topic of this book resembles grammar and time management, we all know the basic workings, we just don't know what all of the doo-hickeys are called, thus making it very much of a head-nodding experience. but while it validates the science behind your actions and encounters, being able to envision the math does not necessarily help the palatability of it all. furthermore, the lengths the work goes to illuminating the various trends and behaviors of individuals seem for naught for the recorded observations are trends and behaviors for quite a good reason; it is who we are. very much of what is discussed here deals in a person's hard-wiring. how do you get someone who roils over a high dollar transaction to not experience angst? the short answer is, you don't. simply, you're either a roiler or you're not a roiler so thank or bad-mouth your folks accordingly for it is they who are responsible.

and curiously i started reading this book at the same time i started looking for a job. for the first few weeks i had no prospects and was miserable. and then an incredible and incredibly viable option presented itself and i was elated. a few weeks after that a second promising offer came up and i was again miserable. having no options sucks and having too many options sucks, in some ways even more, leaving the only blue-sky scenario to having one right and good choice. unfortunately for us folks living in the dollar-whore society that we do, fewer choices just ain't gonna happen. doubt me? go buy a toothbrush. one like you grew up using. then we'll talk.