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Title: Getting a Grip: Clarity, Creativity, and Courage in a World Gone Mad
ISBN: 0979414245
Author:
Frances Moore Lappe
Publicate Date: 2007-10-08
Publish: 2007-10-08
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Paperback
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1: making a difference
This book has already made a difference in my life. I purchased it because of a loss of faith in politics as usual. Lappe's idea of living democracy, as opposed to "thin democracy" (where you vote for a politician and hand off all responsibility for another four years) really hit home. I have joined an amateur radio emergency service group and attended my first neighborhood community meeting as I try to participate in rather than whine about our living democracy.
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2: Yes We Can
It feels like now is the time in history for the People to stand up and shake off the fear and loss of control and believe that they can and will change things for the better. Frances Moore Lappe in this book helps us out of our chairs and pushes us out the door with a feeling of hope and excitement. Read it, get a grip and smile again while planning one small step that will make a difference.
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3: We need to listen
I was fortunate enough to meet Frances Moore Lappe recently. Hearing her speak, I was reminded of the source of true leadership. If you ever get the chance to hear her in person. Go! If not, get this book.
Frances is able to express her vision clearly and logically, without any of the brohaha and self-importance so many thinkers possess (and foist on the rest of us). Being a life coach, I love her focus on taking action, but more than that, on helping us to understand how our thinking is so manipulated by our culture. Just today, I was speaking to a client about fear. I told her about this book and directed her to the matrix on "Seven Ways to Rethink Fear." Being a visual person myself, I appreciate the way she's laid this out as well as "Toward a Language of Democracy." Interestingly to me, one of my favorite psychology book, "Escape From Babel, Toward a Unifying Language for Psychotherapy Practice" points out how there are only a few things that make psychology work and that all therapists need to understand and "speak the same language" or they cannot help others. In the same way, Moore Lappe's "Language of Democracy" shows that "truth" remains elusive and it is how we look at things that matters. We can CHOOSE to view words and the people who utter them as antithetical to our own beliefs or we can choose to look deeper and open ourselves to the alternatives.
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4: Getting a Grip
Fast service from the source.
Intriguing book which will affect your outlook on America.
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5: Getting a Grip
This book is the key to keeping it real. I find myself more productive after reading it.
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