Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take 📱 Kindle
Self Matters
Phil McGraw · 2001
71/100
👍 Worth It
Dr. Phil's framework here - ten defining moments, seven choices, five people who shaped you - is a genuinely useful way to sort through why you are who you are. It's more pop-psychology than clinical, and it's tied closely to his TV persona, but the exercises themselves hold up. A worthwhile, structured self-assessment if his style works for you.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety85
Substance / usefulness72
Craft & writing70
Originality68
Evidence & accuracy70
Hype vs delivers60
Age-fit85
Human-eye read70
Penny’s verdict71
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