Cheap Psychological Tricks: What to Do When Hard Work, Honesty, and Perseverance Fail

The title holds true. Sometimes hard work is overlooked and the kinder you are the worse you feel you are treated. The advice in this book helps to put everything in perspective in a very straight and to the point fashion. From avoiding feeling dizzy in an amusement ride to keepnig the flame in your love life; the pointer are little lessons to remember your entire life. A book to cherish, for you will read it many times over.

These "Cheap Tricks" have great worth. Actually, the information in this book is quite valuable. It's about using knowledge of brain function to one's advantage in everyday life. Dr. Buff's style of writing is absent of mumbo-jumbo. He has a practical, common-sense approach to science, mixed with great humor, charm and fun-facts. This is the kind of book your friends will ask to borrow and not return. It happened to me.

I made my friends read this after I got done. I couldn't put it down and I'm not even a big psychology fan.

This book offers some fairly lighthearted means of improving your life via psychological tricks, each presented in its own mini-chapter. Some of these tricks are amazing, some are fairly obvious (listening to other people's problems gives you a new perspective on your own.) Unfortunately, the chapters concerning interactions with others are frequently a bit simplistic and naive: people aren't automatons. The large number of references to articles in Psychology Today is probably the best guide to the quality and scope of this book. It covers: insomnia, dealing with your boss, children, depression, relationships, sex, etc. It's a book you're likely to give to someone else to read as soon as you're done.