Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 🎧 Audiobook
Get Out of Your Own Way: Overcoming Self-Defeating Behavior
Mark Goulston & Philip Goldberg · 2018
🎙 Narrated by Mark Goulston (co-author narrates)
66/100
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Psychiatrist Mark Goulston and co-author Philip Goldberg walk through roughly 40 self-sabotaging behaviors — procrastination, envy, neediness — pairing each with a quick 'usable insight.' Goulston narrates it himself, which lends real clinical authority, but at under five hours for 40 behaviors, each one gets more of a drive-by than a deep dive. Useful as a field guide to recognize your own patterns, not a workbook to fully work through them.
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🎙 Narration: fine Narrated by co-author and psychiatrist Mark Goulston, giving it clinical authority; no independent performance review beyond that was located.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness65
Craft & writing65
Originality55
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit80
Human-eye read65
Penny’s verdict66
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