Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Power of Having Desire
Bruce Garrabrandt · 2004
54/100
👎 Skip It
Garrabrandt writes from genuine personal experience as an artist and speaker, and the Dr. Laura endorsement signals a values-conservative reader in mind, but the content itself is standard motivational fare — fear, procrastination, habits, mentors — with thin evidence and no original research behind it. The motivational shelf is crowded with better-researched options, and a 2004 publication hasn't aged into anything that sets it apart.
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Verdict receipt0–100
Faith & family safety72
Substance / usefulness56
Craft & writing59
Originality38
Evidence & accuracy66
Hype vs delivers72
Age-fit59
👁 Human-eye gut-check52
Penny’s verdict54
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