I’ve read a lot of self-help books over the years, and have a social work degree with a minor in psych and lots of experiential training to boot . . .

And I hadn’t read this book before partly because the universe just hadn’t put it in my hands but also because I expected it to be trite . . .

And it is SO NOT TRITE! Truly effective insights, although I think there are limits to, particularly, first seek to understand since, sorry, sometimes people are just crazy and what I understand is that they are crazy.

Perhaps what I appreciated most was his acknowledgment that first we must be independent before we can be interdependent. I get so sick of people saying they are going to do something just as soon as they can do it “in community”. Just do it already!