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

by Rick Carson

Book Overview

The completely updated edition of this classic includes powerful methods for freeing oneself from self-defeating behaviors and beliefs

Your gremlin interprets your every experience. He has nothing good to say about you or anything you do. Just when you feel you've out-argued him, he changes his strategy. Grapple with him and you become more enmeshed. What he hates is simply being noticed. That's the first step to his taming...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060520221
• ISBN13: 9780060520229
• Release Date: July 2003
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Great for some, not for others.

It's clear from reading the wide variety of reviews of this book that the concepts presented work really well for some people, and a whole lot less well for others. To me, the very simplicity that some reviewers complained about is what makes this really work. In fact, I'd bet that there's a whole lot of complexity and many years of work underneath Carson's surprisingly straightforward presentation (and speaking of "surprisingly," he does say right in the title that it's a "surprisingly simple method"!). If you are someone who needs to know the theory behind the practice, or if you want your self-help books to be serious rather than playful, then this is not the book for you. However, if you're ready to try out the exercises Carson suggests (which although simple are not at all effortless) and gain some new and very useful insights into ways in which you could be self-sabotaging your goals and denying yourself the right to your own life - well, as I think Carson would say, that would be your choice!

Choose your best option

Taming your Gremlin is a great book because it helps us to confront our own demons and overcome them. This book will help people who have self-destructive patterns of behavior. I suggest you read another book, Optimal Thinking: How to Be your Best Self which shows you how to make the best choices in every situation. There is also a chapter that shows you how to identify the core beliefs that stop you from being your best and realistic simple strategies to overcome them. I absolutely recommend each of these books.

Reclaim your freedom and joy!

This is a book I regularly use in my coaching practice. It's a fun, easy read that has helped my clients (and myself) move past self-limiting thoughts and behaviors. Carson's light-hearted approach and the great illustrations keep the process fun and simple for the everyday reader. Enjoying yourself is key to having a prosperous, abundant life - emotionally, spiritually, and financially. Everybody should have this in their personal library, and it is absolutely a must-read for coaches. Enjoy!

the tricky devils of the human mind unveiled!

This is the best book on the behaviour of the human mind I have ever read. Witty, clever and decidedly wise, it has more relevance for the everyday life of the person on the street than any other modern guide to awakening or personal psychotherapy I have come across. Richard Carson marries the serious with the witty in unprecedentedly simple style, and manages to convey that enjoying yourself as you are now is the real key to positive change. This is just the "medicine" that the overly causeandeffect dualistic mind of the west really needs. Jung called logic the greatest thorn in the side of western thought, and Carson's book is a prime example of this way of thinking.If you want to enjoy your life ever more each day, and let your own light shine to set others free too, read this book and laugh your way back home.

My college students use this book to learn to be happier.

I have used Carson's book for seven years in my college social psychology course entitled Self and Others. I have been amazed at how many students use the ideas in the book to make real changes in how they think and feel about themselves,and how they interact with others. I laugh, cry and cheer when I read many of their papers. Thank you Richard Carson.