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Be Your Own Confidence Coach

Kirsty Ginman · 2008
65/100
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Kirsty Ginman's guide is warm, practical, and moves at a friendly pace through body language, voice, and assertiveness exercises — solid basics for someone brand new to this territory. The problem is it sits in a crowded genre and offers little that experienced self-help readers haven't seen before, and the light citation of evidence makes it hard to trust the methods beyond anecdote. Worth a look for a beginner, but most readers will find more depth elsewhere.

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