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title: "Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things"
brand: "laurence gonzales"
price: "5666 som"
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reviews_count: 10
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# Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

**Brand:** laurence gonzales
**Price:** 5666 som
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- **What is this?** Everyday Survival: Why Smart People Do Stupid Things by laurence gonzales
- **How much does it cost?** 5666 som with free shipping
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## Customer Reviews

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    Kept me thinking
  

*by L***O on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 7, 2011*

I bought the Kindle version of Everyday Survival, but then had to buy the paperback version because I kept wanting to read sections to my husband and hate flipping back through the Kindle. If you're a left-brain linear thinker, I can see why this book didn't do it for you; however, if you're a right-brain thinker, you won't think Gonzales veers off-track at all, and will happily follow along with him on his mental as well as geographic journeys. I give it 4 stars instead of 5 only because his prose is not as poetic as Loren Eiseley's. Still, his writing is very accessible, considering the topics he deals with and I felt like I was listening to a cool friend.

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    Intuition!  - Gina at GirlsFightBack.com
  

*by G***D on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 25, 2014*

At Girls Fight Back, we focus on using your intuition as one of the greatest tools of personal safety. Gonzales examines how the mind works in patterns to make us more safe at times and at other times to put us in more danger. Awareness is always the key, illustrated by the story he tells of a firefighter who sets his watch alarm to go off every hour during a fire. When that alarm goes off, the firefighter uses it as a reminder to stop to, “…look around and question what he’s doing, what he’s missing, what he ought to notice. Moreover, he stops to consider what he’s feeling in his gut too. Maybe there’s a signal he is ignoring.” We all need a mental alarm to stop and asses to prevent us from going too deep into a “vacation state of mind.” He concludes this book by stating, “Although it’s easy to pass through life as if in a waking dream, we can enrich our lives, make ourselves more effective, and sometimes even cast a protective web around ourselves and our children, by a habit of knowing—a craving to know—our world and ourselves and by the simple act of consciously paying attention.” This is a great read to start you down the path of awareness. Gonzales is also the offer of another great book Deep Survival.

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    Title of the book doesn't describe the book
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 28, 2019*

I will answer the implied question suggested by the title of this book with one word:Why do smart people do stupid things? EVOLUTIONThat pretty much sums up this book. There are a couple of interesting chapters in the very beginning of the book that talk about this question, but then the last 3/4 of the book goes off on a tangent that reads more like a journal of self-discovery than anything else. It was interesting stuff, and for the most part I enjoyed reading it, but it was nothing like was I was expecting based on the title and description of the book. I was expecting something more practical, not a discourse on the origins of life and the universe. So if you are looking for something practical to read about how to survive every day disasters then move along. This book is not for you.

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