Many of the self-help books I've read have a pamphlet's worth of important content spread across an entire book. For those books, I only find that out most of the way through reading it, resulting in a lot of wasted time.

This isn't one of those books. This short work (explicitly called a 'booklet' in the description) spends just the right amount of time to impart some useful practices without belaboring the point. Rosenberg manages to explain what anger's really about, and using a few examples, breaks down his process for really understanding what is going on inside your own head.

In a half-hour I was able to assess if the author has anything worthwhile to say (he does), and now I'm going to pick up his book on nonviolent communication and see if he can keep this up. ( )