Brief Summary Of The Book 'The Gift Of Fear'

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The Gift of Fear is full of advice and real life stories that everyone can relate to. Most of the stories in this book involved some sort of persistence or obsession. People who wouldn’t stop receiving voicemails from an overly excited job applicant or help carrying your groceries from a seemingly friendly stranger. The victims in these cases didn’t expect the outcomes of their interactions with these people to end so badly. The book explains how to prevent these situations from happening to you. This is technically a self-help book but it uses people’s real life fear as examples. Assuming that the author included these real life stories to inform the reader about these events, I think that he also put them in the book to make it more interesting. At times I felt scared reading this book, it felt like I was reading a true crime book and not a self-help book. I could personally relate to the chapter in the book called “I was trying to …show more content…

The crimes are sometimes very disturbing but the purpose of the book is to help you out. I think that the author wants us to know that crimes like this can happen, so that we aren’t oblivious. Informing us on how we can prevent these events from happening. Fear is important in all aspects of life. It shows us that we have limits and boundaries. What I took away from this book is to think. Think about what you are doing and how it affects those around you, as well as yourself. Maybe you should go to the grocery store in the middle of day or with a friend. So that you are surrounded by witnesses and a person you trust. Rather than going at night by yourself and then have a stranger come out of the darkness to help you. You should be cautious and try to avoid putting yourself into these situations. In the book there were so many situations where people didn’t think about what they were doing or how they were presenting

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