Two Legged Snakes

By Ed Slack

Who we trust is the single most important factor in determining our happiness and success. This book offers the keys to perceiving and overcoming deception with astonishing simplicity, and humour that... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 098255141X
• ISBN13: 9780982551417
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Simple Truth Publishing
• Length: 141 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Slack Pens A Winner With Two Legged Snakes

This is a book that everyone really needs to read. Author Ed. Slack manages to bring a serious top to the table while not forgetting his sense of humor. The book takes you into the facades that so many around us use and how we can tell what the motives of others might be before it is too late. Whether its politicians, family members or friends or those responsible for reporting the news, there is truly no where we shouldn't take a critical look. The book doesn't tell you to avoid all people for fear of what might happen, but it does suggest that we have to use care and commonsense when making important decisions. Add this one to your reading list and make sure to pass the word on to your friends.

Sidestep the Master Manipulators!

Dr. Ed Slack's "Two Legged Snakes" is an original, engaging work that will help guide you through the social jungle of opportunists, tricksters, and manipulators. Easy to follow and fun to read, this extensively-illustrated guide steps the reader along the path of human interaction and relationships where things - and people - are not always what they seem. You'll learn tactics and methods for avoiding draining or destructive forces in your social and work life, and for establishing healthy, positive relations built on honesty and mutual trust. If you have any interest at all in better friendships, social interaction, and interpersonal communication, add this book to your library.

Multi-Modal Processing: A Quality Technique Used to Capacity

Dr Ed Slack is a psychologist who understands communication far beyond the walls of his office practice. IN TWO LEGGED SNAKES: UNDERSTANDING AND HANDLING MANIPULATIVE PEOPLE he offers wise insights to the reader about how to avoid those fellow humans who would attempt to manipulate us into not only the way that we think, but the way that we decipher façades that lead to errors in judgment that in turn can lead to unhappy hook-ups and decisions. Starting his complexly illustrated book (a very wise choice for this informative guide), he states 'The greatest single factor determining your level of happiness and success is who you listen to and who you trust.' He then proceeds to inform us that his so named 'two-legged snakes' 'will sell you things you don't need, break your heart, steal from you with a smile, and garner your support for agendas that benefit them at ridiculous costs to you.' What follows is a very wise lesson peppered with hilarious examples as well as strong warnings of signs to watch for as two-legged snakes cross our paths. His chapter headings tell the goal of the book: Why two legged snakes have become such a problem; Types of two legged snakes (charmers, backstabbers, media maven, the decorated, the bilker, the bombast entertainer, etc); The apple biters: Types of two legged snake fans; Common two legged snake persuasion techniques; Two legged snake biting styles; Handling two legged snakes; The snakes in our heads. In combining his pungent ideas and enlightening ways of recognizing and avoiding his two legged snake types Slack uses copious well-drawn illustrations (by Donny Smutz, Sherard Jackson, and Patrick Schlafer) that drive the messages home. His book uses quotes from famous people to enhance and validate his teachings, such as Albert Einstein's 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.' But in the end what this little volume offers is recognition about how we interact with those around us, and how to discern these who would lead us into situations we later regret. Slack also reminds us that in our own minds we carry the potential of behaving in two legged snake fashion and how to recognize these tendencies and correct them. This is a fun book to read - brief and well organized - while at the same time this is a manual for helping us deal with a phenomenon about which we never really knew existed! Grady Harp, May 10