Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
Robert Anthony · 2023
62/100
👎 Skip It
Robert Anthony's framework has genuinely helped a lot of readers over the decades, and the action-oriented approach is more practical than most self-help. But the NLP and hypnosis underpinning has not aged well scientifically, and even the revised edition carries a worldview that feels rooted in the 1980s. Readers looking for confidence-building today have access to better-supported options.
✦ 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.
⚠ Parent note — our reviewers flagged: NLP and hypnosis content may concern some faith communities; secular self-directed worldview with no acknowledgment of faith perspective. We still scored it 62; these are context for your family, not an automatic skip.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety80
substance60
craft65
originality55
accuracy48
hype58
age-fit75
human-eye60
Penny’s verdict62
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