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The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence

Gavin de Becker

Paperback | Pages: 352 pages

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Title	:	The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
Author	:	Gavin de Becker
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	July 2000 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC (first published 1996)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Psychology. Self Help. Crime. True Crime

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True fear is a gift. Unwarranted fear is a curse. Learn how to tell the difference. A date won't take "no" for an answer. The new nanny gives a mother an uneasy feeling. A stranger in a deserted parking lot offers unsolicited help. The threat of violence surrounds us every day. But we can protect ourselves, by learning to trust—and act on—our gut instincts. In this empowering book, Gavin de Becker, the man Oprah Winfrey calls the nation's leading expert on violent behavior, shows you how to spot even subtle signs of danger—before it's too late. Shattering the myth that most violent acts are unpredictable, de Becker, whose clients include top Hollywood stars and government agencies, offers specific ways to protect yourself and those you love, including how to act when approached by a stranger, when you should fear someone close to you, what to do if you are being stalked, how to uncover the source of anonymous threats or phone calls, the biggest mistake you can make with a threatening person, and more. Learn to spot the danger signals others miss. It might just save your life.

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Original Title:	The Gift of Fear
ISBN:	0747538352 (ISBN13: 9780747538356)
Edition Language:	English

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The Gift of Fear taught me some important lessons abut paying attention to your instincts. The author spent decades in protection and grew up in an abusive, violent home, so he knows what he's talking about. Some of his ideas are quite counter intuitive, like that Protective Orders don't help and frequently are the catalyst for violence from the offender.Another idea he has is that women need to be much more assertive with men who they know they will never be interested in. According to his

On the first day of SFSI training for sex educators, we do an exercise called "I Don't Want To Talk About It." Trainees practice saying just that to a partner who inundates them with questions, from the mundane to the highly offensive. (And first-day sex educators can come up with some really offensive questions. Most of them are about anal sex.)It's hard for many trainees to set that boundary, and most women especially add qualifiers: "I don't want to talk about that right now." "I'm sorry, but

***NO SPOILERS***Something about the title and cover design of The Gift of Fear gives the impression that its a self-help book about self-defense. It isnt. The only good thing on the cover is the quotation separating title from subtitle: This Book Can Save Your Life. Thats true. The author is a specialist in security issues and threat assessment who owns a successful private security firm in Los Angeles called Gavin de Becker & Associates. His clients include many high profile figures. (A

What this book taught me: I should have listened to my intuition and not read it. (Thanks Jake!)How can I be the only person that hated this book? It's so dumb. It's so useless. You really needed a 400 page book to tell you, "listen to your gut?"Give me $7.99 and I'll tell you to listen to your gut.The Gift of Fear is impossibly repetitive. It is disorganized, badly edited, and mainly serves as a pedestal on which Gavin de Becker can place himself for the rest of us to admire.This is basically

All martial artists should read this. Hopefully you already know that awareness is by far the most important aspect of self-defense. The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker tells us how to tune into the body's natural awareness (a subconscious intuition for danger that is hard-wired into our psyche). Basically he argues that our intuition is a far better judge than our logical mind when it comes to danger. The author runs a security firm that guards Presidents and A list celebs among others, his

This book has some useful information, particularly for women, and I appreciate that Mr. de Becker gives the reader permission to trust her instincts while aiming to educate and fine-tune her intuition. That said, he seemed to spend a lot of time at the beginning telling me what he was going to tell me instead of just jumping in and telling me. Also, the closer I got to the end of the book, the more outlandish, sensational, and extreme the examples of violent behavior became and the less

For some reason, I assumed this book encouraged women to walk around holding their keys as weapons and always look over their shoulders for random attackers. Nothing could be further from the truth. The author actually dedicates a chapter towards the end of the book to why misinformed, always-heightened worry makes us less safe, and on top of that, undermines the parts of our lives that are safe and happy. I don't know where my assumptions came from, if I had read something misleading or if I