Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Emotional Success: The Power of Gratitude, Compassion, and Pride
David DeSteno PhD · 2018
🎙 Narrated by Dan Woren
78/100
👍 Worth It
DeSteno makes a sharp, research-backed case that gratitude, compassion, and pride beat white-knuckle willpower for real self-control, and it's grounded in his own lab's work rather than borrowed pop-psych claims. The title sells it as lighter self-help than it actually is, but Dan Woren's professional narration handles the denser material well.
✦ Penny’s Take — this is The Review Group’s own editorial assessment. Penny’s analytical review line researched this book from real sources and scored it across the lenses shown below. It’s an honest first-party read — not a page-by-page personal one. The gold ✓ Penny Tested mark is reserved for books Penny reads cover to cover herself.
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🎙 Narration: good Dan Woren, a veteran Blackstone Audio narrator, delivers a clean ~7.5 hour read released January 2018.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness82
Craft & writing78
Originality70
Evidence & accuracy78
Hype vs delivers55
Age-fit85
Human-eye read78
Penny’s verdict78
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