My Next Book Clubs
I Could Do Anything book club - 6/11/2015-9/30/2015
Du musst dich nicht entsch... buchclub - 10/1/2015-1/20/2016
Refuse to Choose book club - 10/1/2015-1/20/2016
No, these are not the usual book clubs in any sense. To start with, my book clubs are online. You can roll out of bed in your pajamas and check in from where you are. And the members aren't from around the corner, they're writing in from all over the world!
Still, why should you join one (or more) of my book clubs? You might already know and like my books. You may even have read them. But these book clubs will make you want to read them again - and this time, you'll do the exercises. (You know you skip through the exercises when you read on your own.)
You'll also discover in these book clubs that you'll learn more about yourself in an hour than you've done in a decade! And you'll have some great people to talk to, great comments to read. You'll love the people you meet in my book clubs. They may be from all over the world, but they're your kind of people. Here's why: they join because they like my books and they're searching for the same things you are. You can't always find people like that in your neighborhood.
I'll send you one chapter's exercises each week. You'll read your own book and do the exercises on your own) and you can come online at any time to talk with the other good people about what you discovered. (Someone in Sydney, Hong Kong, New York, London or Johannesburg is sure to be awake.)
Here are the registration dates again:
My Next Book Clubs
June 2015
I Could Do Anything book club
6/11/2015-9/30/2015
(This one is also in German!):
Du musst dich nicht entsch... buchclub
10/1/2015-1/20/2016
October 2015
Refuse to Choose book club
10/1/2015-1/20/2016
Register 1-14 days before the start date for any of them.
Don't try to memorize those dates. Just come on over and join my mailing list at http://barbarasclub.com . That way you'll be notified of the book clubs and my many impromptu telephone discussions about Resistance! (Don't worry, I don't send out many newsletters so I won't jam your inbox. :-)
Tuesday, March 31, 2015
Friday, March 27, 2015
Hang Out with Me (Now!)
Register for Hanging Out with Barbara Sher from 7/10-19/2015
Our year together begins the next day!
Add your name to my mailing list for reminders of this and other events:
http://barbarasclub.com
Hanging Out is different from anything I've done before and I can't keep away from it! (I check it before I look at my emails!) I put up my funniest (smartest) videos, wrote my best new material, and I still can't get over how much everyone loves it. But the quality of the conversations was completely unexpected. It's all online so members from all over the world jump in all the time. So do I.
"THIS community supports sometimes bold, sometimes more timid steps in the happiness direction. … we all try to understand that newly discovered happiness can cause unease. The power of actually DOING things that make us happy is nothing short of amazing."
If you want to be part of this now, while I'm still involved, I'd love you to sign up. HO registration dates begin July10 and end July 19, 2015.
See you there!
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
The Private Eye Exercise
I knew they’d catch up with Wishcraft some day. (Well, apparently the CIA did the same thing in the 40’s, but I don’t think they told anybody about it.) Here's what the wonderful Powell's bookstore sent up today:
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says about You New Science of Snooping
by Sam Gosling
Publisher Comments:
Does what’s on your desk reveal what’s on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected-and unplanned-ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us.
Gosling, one of the field’s most innovative researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff. What he has discovered is astonishing: when it comes to the most essential components of our personalities-from friendliness to flexibility-the things we own and the way we arrange them often say more about us than even our most intimate conversations.
If you know what to look for, you can figure out how reliable a new boyfriend is by peeking into his medicine cabinet or whether an employee is committed to her job by analyzing her cubicle. Bottom line: The insights we gain can boost our understanding of ourselves and sharpen our perceptions of others. Packed with original research and fascinating stories, Snoop is a captivating guidebook to our not-so-secret lives.
Review:
In 1942, as the United States was entering World War II, the Office of Strategic Services — the precursor to today's CIA — was scrambling to find promising spies to go behind enemy lines. One of the aptitude exams it developed was the Belongings Test, in which candidates had to draw conclusions about a man based purely on items in his bedroom: clothes, a timetable, a ticket receipt.
... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)
About the Author
Sam Gosling is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has spent the last decade conducting research on how personality is expressed and perceived in everyday contexts. He has been profiled by the New York Times, Psychology Today, and other publications, and he is featured in
Snoop: What Your Stuff Says about You New Science of Snooping
by Sam Gosling
Publisher Comments:
Does what’s on your desk reveal what’s on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected-and unplanned-ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us.
Gosling, one of the field’s most innovative researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff. What he has discovered is astonishing: when it comes to the most essential components of our personalities-from friendliness to flexibility-the things we own and the way we arrange them often say more about us than even our most intimate conversations.
If you know what to look for, you can figure out how reliable a new boyfriend is by peeking into his medicine cabinet or whether an employee is committed to her job by analyzing her cubicle. Bottom line: The insights we gain can boost our understanding of ourselves and sharpen our perceptions of others. Packed with original research and fascinating stories, Snoop is a captivating guidebook to our not-so-secret lives.
Review:
In 1942, as the United States was entering World War II, the Office of Strategic Services — the precursor to today's CIA — was scrambling to find promising spies to go behind enemy lines. One of the aptitude exams it developed was the Belongings Test, in which candidates had to draw conclusions about a man based purely on items in his bedroom: clothes, a timetable, a ticket receipt.
... Washington Post Book Review (read the entire Washington Post review)
About the Author
Sam Gosling is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has spent the last decade conducting research on how personality is expressed and perceived in everyday contexts. He has been profiled by the New York Times, Psychology Today, and other publications, and he is featured in
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The day I first held Wishcraft in my hands
I can't exactly explain how I felt. It wasn't exactly real. But a peculiar incident made it real very soon...
[more to come as soon as I finish the newsletter]
[more to come as soon as I finish the newsletter]
Thursday, July 31, 2008
and then the one that makes me cry
I wish I had read your book years ago, Barbara. I'm 70 now,
> and wanted to be a doctor when I was younger, but my family wouldn't
> hear of it, not for a woman. Immodest.
No one should have this happen
> and your wonderful book will change that for so many people
> like me because I had dreams. SUCH DREAMS!
Okay, that's all I'll put on this blog. But you can see why I can't get anywhere with that foreword. Sigh.
> and wanted to be a doctor when I was younger, but my family wouldn't
> hear of it, not for a woman. Immodest.
No one should have this happen
> and your wonderful book will change that for so many people
> like me because I had dreams. SUCH DREAMS!
Okay, that's all I'll put on this blog. But you can see why I can't get anywhere with that foreword. Sigh.
One more story
> I'm a 47-year-old never-married woman who, up until the age of 40 was
> living for others...a high-powered, mega-bucks corporate careerr that
> always felt wrong. I even hated the showplace home I owned (but seldom
> enjoyed). After I was laid off at 40 my life finally became my own.
> With the help of WISHCRAFT, frequent flyer miles, and profit from
> selling my house, I did everything from trek in Nepal, coach running
> in Hawaii, get a Master's Degree, scuba dive in Fiji, and have a baby
> of my own at age 43! Now I teach college part-time and spend the rest
> of my time with what I love more than anything -- being with my
> daughter. SM, NC
> living for others...a high-powered, mega-bucks corporate careerr that
> always felt wrong. I even hated the showplace home I owned (but seldom
> enjoyed). After I was laid off at 40 my life finally became my own.
> With the help of WISHCRAFT, frequent flyer miles, and profit from
> selling my house, I did everything from trek in Nepal, coach running
> in Hawaii, get a Master's Degree, scuba dive in Fiji, and have a baby
> of my own at age 43! Now I teach college part-time and spend the rest
> of my time with what I love more than anything -- being with my
> daughter. SM, NC
Here's another story
"Barbara, I want to thank you for the effect you have had on my life.
> I hated my job and wanted to quit so I could be an artist, dammit, so
> when I got to the part that said you weren't going to tell me to leave
> it, I was ready to quit reading. Boy, am I glad I didn't. I love to
> take photographs. (I was the production manager of a cable network --
> basically a glorified janitor). I always thought 'it's who you know to
> get a gallery showing and I'm too old to go back to school.'
>
> ...Then I buy myself a camera for Christmas and enroll in a beginning
> photo class. I talk about it so my office mate tells me to hang up one
> of my photos in the office. People see it, start talking to me, some
> even give me equipment they haven't used since college and I start
> photographing my co-workers and friends and decide to make a gallery
> of my own house by filling up the empty hallway that leads to the
> second story. Visitors see my pictures and pass my name on to friends
> in need of head shots. An actress at work sees one of my proof sheets
> and a week later I am paid to redo her headshots. She takes those
> headshots to a casting and the director asks her who did the pictures
> and soon I have a call asking me to place business cards in her
> office...and the business starts coming in.
>
> Last week the actress Teri Garr came up and said to me, "So you're
> the guy taking the great pictures," and two hours later I was
> photographing her, just to give her shots of herself 'behind the
> scenes.' The executive producer of her show saw them and asked me to
> photograph the whole cast...and said he didn't know why I was working
> as a facilities manager (head janitor) when I had so much talent...He
> ended the week by saying let's ee what we can do about making you a
> staff photographer next season.
>
> Here's my point: if it should happen, great. If not, that's great,
> too. I have what I love to do and I can continue to do it whether I am
> paid for it or not. Barbara, Thank you, Thank You, Thank You!!! Howard
> J. C., Photographer. " CA
> I hated my job and wanted to quit so I could be an artist, dammit, so
> when I got to the part that said you weren't going to tell me to leave
> it, I was ready to quit reading. Boy, am I glad I didn't. I love to
> take photographs. (I was the production manager of a cable network --
> basically a glorified janitor). I always thought 'it's who you know to
> get a gallery showing and I'm too old to go back to school.'
>
> ...Then I buy myself a camera for Christmas and enroll in a beginning
> photo class. I talk about it so my office mate tells me to hang up one
> of my photos in the office. People see it, start talking to me, some
> even give me equipment they haven't used since college and I start
> photographing my co-workers and friends and decide to make a gallery
> of my own house by filling up the empty hallway that leads to the
> second story. Visitors see my pictures and pass my name on to friends
> in need of head shots. An actress at work sees one of my proof sheets
> and a week later I am paid to redo her headshots. She takes those
> headshots to a casting and the director asks her who did the pictures
> and soon I have a call asking me to place business cards in her
> office...and the business starts coming in.
>
> Last week the actress Teri Garr came up and said to me, "So you're
> the guy taking the great pictures," and two hours later I was
> photographing her, just to give her shots of herself 'behind the
> scenes.' The executive producer of her show saw them and asked me to
> photograph the whole cast...and said he didn't know why I was working
> as a facilities manager (head janitor) when I had so much talent...He
> ended the week by saying let's ee what we can do about making you a
> staff photographer next season.
>
> Here's my point: if it should happen, great. If not, that's great,
> too. I have what I love to do and I can continue to do it whether I am
> paid for it or not. Barbara, Thank you, Thank You, Thank You!!! Howard
> J. C., Photographer. " CA
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