SHER DOESN'T WRITE KID'S BOOKS!

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	• Refuse to Choose!: Use All of Your Interests, Passions, and Hobbies to Create the Life and Career of Your ... Barbara Sher Rodale Books, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 49 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

scanners support sher

As always, Barbara is wise and witty with new ideas to share. The Scanner concept explains a lot of things about a number of people I know; I will, thanks to another reviewer, check out the references cited on the web site. Perhaps I will find the inspiration to base a dissertation somewhere in here [or there, all depends on how you look at it].

I will be buying a 2nd copy so I have one for home, one for my private counseling practice. Odd that of all the really good authors in self-help field, Barbara Sher is the only one who inspires me to buy duplicates. And no, I am not a friend / family member / paid reviewer...I just want to be like Barbara when [if] I grow up!

Is "ReadMoreBooks..." a subversive sibling of Ms. Sher's? I was relieved to find out, courtesy of this book, that I am OK and my subersive sibling is, well, she is a subversive sibling in the worst sense of the word. Now I, like so many others, can stop wondering if "Perfect Pat" [note name is gender neutral, comment is not aimed at any particular person!] is right and we are just wasting our lives and taking up space, and devote ourselves purely to pursuit of multiple professions

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This book is changing my life!

I now realize that all the other self help programs were an attempt to try to get myself to be happy doing one thing. It was never going to happen. Now there's a real solution, a whole other paradigm.

Stop trying to make yourself do one thing, and get this book to help you follow all your heart's desires while making it work in real life.

Tell every person you know with multiple interests. They will be be relieved and grateful.

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Celebrating eclectic passions

Actor Martin Sheen just shot his final episode as the President on tv series The West Wing [to air in mid May], and at age 65 will enroll as a full-time student at the National University of Ireland, majoring in philosophy, theology and English literature with a special concentration in oceanography. He has several honorary degrees, and also has been arrested more than 60 times for civil disobedience.

Author Barbara Sher admits to being this kind of multitalented, multifaceted person with changing interests, a "Scanner" who "loves to read and write, to fix and invent things, to design projects and businesses, to cook and sing, and to create the perfect dinner party... fascinated with learning... sees the world is like a big candy store full of fascinating opportunities."

She notes that other people [and Scanners themselves] may often become very frustrated with these protean interests and shifting attentions, but she distinguishes the personality qualities and ways of thinking from those resulting from depression or ADD/ADHD, and defines a range of varieties of Scanners such as the Serial Specialist, Jack-of-All-Trades, the Sybil and others.

One of the people she mentions is Studs Terkel, who has been a radio performer, actor, radio interviewer, and writer of multiple books. She considers him a Wanderer and says his "theme, his first love and his greatest gift is listening to people."

This stimulating book is an informative and encouraging celebration of the many people with eclectic passions and pursuits who will not, cannot settle down to just one path to find and realize their talents.

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SHER DOESN'T WRITE KID'S BOOKS!

I love everything she writes, but always find the children's books listed with hers by a different Barbara Sher. If you want a bio of the other Barbara Sher, you're sent right back to the *real* Barbara's bio, so there's no way to make it clear that those books aren't hers. I bought the kid's book at a booksigning in Cincinnati where Barbara spoke last week and she told me she can't get amazon to change it. After her talk (about Scanners! Which saved my life--and the book is even better!) I looked into the children's book and it was clear it was written by someone else (none of Sher's tone, wit, or wisdom, etc.) So I thought I'd let all of you know!

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Outstanding!

I read Barbara's "It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now" at the ripe old age of 34, after suffering a Traumatic Brain Injury and needing to re-design my whole life to fit my new needs- It SAVED MY LIFE!
I have since read each and every one of her books, and handed out copies like a crazed zealot! I think that I am single-handedly keeping Barbara in vacations! (Assuming she even DOES vacations, Somehow, I see her on a constant, driven .... Purpose-Spree... no time for vacation!):c) Each and every person I've given a book to has reported back to me that reading them has changed their lives, added purpose, re-directed, and given them the "permission" they needed to live what they really wanted all along- AND, more importantly- to figure out what that is!
This book is no different!
I have been passionately torn in many directions for most of my life, paralyzed by the fear of committing to any single passion, for fear of letting go of the basket-fulls of others.
This book not only explains WHY, but gives direction, purpose, focus and validation to these feelings. It's not a bad thing, it's fine! It's WONDERFUL! And WORKABLE! And...I don't need to relinquish ANY dreams or passions!
Now... If I could convince Barbara to come over to my house for coffee- perhaps for vacation?!

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