FOR THOSE INTERESTED
I received my copy of the book today. Kindle has done a good job of printing and binding. It is actually superior to other books I have had published in printing and binding. And yes, I had to pay the full $46.80 for the book. I noticed that Kindle, knowing it is of some expense, offers it for review at no cost with a special app. It is apparent that Kindle believes the reader, once inside its content, will want his or her own copy.
As mentioned before, Kindle set the minimum price, which $46.80 represents. Most of my readers of my e-mail are senior citizens, retired or about to retire. It is written for those in the full flush of life and career as anyone of that distinction will find once they have read the book. My sense is that a fine wine it will find people who will appreciate its bouquet at this or any price. I commend Kindle for giving me this opportunity.
For the person who is not as self-trusting as he or she would like, whatever the endeavor be it that of a student, writer, musician, engineer or professional in any endeavor, the motivation and drive, the confidence and competence, the satisfaction and elan resides in the subtext. Given our culture, given its brutal disregard for our sanity and well being and given its terrible imbalance, we all have a somewhat damaged subtext for here resides our subconscious which is the motor to everything. Being aware of that fact, we can move on and find happiness and fulfillment. That was why the book was written.
My only regret is that it is not a hard cover book. Should you check out the apps, and I think Kindle is wise in offering this possibility, the reader will want his or her own copy.
For a author of ideas, such as myself, I am amazed as I read the biography of GEORGE FROST KENNAN, the essentially unobtrusive observer behind the scenes creator of the TRUMAN DOCTRINE and MARSHALL PLAN that prevented Europe from falling into Stalinist communistic influence and control after World War Two, was very much an organizational development (OD) psychologist like this writer.
Moreover, Kennan unabashedly was very much guided by intuitive thinking when it came to the Russia that he knew and loved so much. As commonly asserted, we are separated by six degrees of separation, and in reading this biography and thinking of it in terms of CONFIDENCE IN SUBTEXT, I feel a connection with a man I have never met, a fellow United States Midwesterner and a fellow traveler -- as my book attempts to demonstrate -- who was guided by his own subtext.
DESCRIPTION OF “CONFIDENCE IN SUBTEXT”:
“Confidence in Subtext” is evident when people know when to go for broke and when not to; when to develop a relationship and when not to; when to take a promotion and when not to; when to join a company or community or organization and when it would be wise to take a pass; when to invest and when not to; when to buy a home, an automobile or some other major purchase and when not; when to take the advice of others and when not; when to go it alone and not; when to leave a job, a community, a relationship, a church, school or company and when not; when to counterintuitively push the hot buttons of someone else and when not; and when to be emphatic, say in a sales call, and when not.
“Confidence in Subtext” is what happens when two people fall in love at first sight! A data bank of complex and detailed information floods the mind, information with which neither party is aware, and is processed in an instant.
To understand the idea of “Confidence in Subtext,” a few examples might be helpful. Everyone has a subtext. True confidence is not possible without a healthy subtext as the stories in this volume are designed to show. Subtext is buried in our subconscious beyond our day-to-day dealing in content and context and why it may not be familiar, but it is always there.
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