Review: Leaves a lot to be desired.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 12 23, 2013
A word of caution to those considering purchasing this self-help guide: this guide was not written by a credentialed author.  Mr. Quinn is not a psychologist, psychotherapist, counselor or even a life coach.  He is a self-professed 52-year-old business man who lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, and I want to say that his heart was in the right place when writing this guide, but the final product leaves a lot to be desired.  The guide is rife with spelling and grammatical errors, including words missing from sentences, missing apostrophes, and puzzling syntax.I did pick this book up and tried to maintain an open mind, hoping that this book might have some new and helpful ideas for readers with low self-esteem.  However, the guide is littered with misinformation about depression and, as someone who's in the process of receiving treatment for lifelong depression, I find that concerning.  Mr. Quinn cites no sources to support his assertions.  This guide is a collection of tactics that might have worked and might still work for Mr. Quinn himself; however, there's no space made for the notion that these techniques might not actually work for others the way they did for him.The one bright spot of this book was where Mr. Quinn relates a story about meeting a man who decided to overcome his shyness by taking a job as an English teacher in Japan.  If only the rest of the guide could have been like this, it might have been a more helpful read.  A bewildering amount of space towards the end of the book is spent talking about working out, and diet as a means of improving your self esteem and, at one point, Mr. Quinn unhelpfully generalizes and equates fatness with inherent unattractiveness.  I personally would not recommend this book to anyone looking to improve their self esteem.