Yeah, I can see how it can be gross but it just doesn't matter to me because I really didn't enjoy anything about the book.
Dr. Dyer is a knowledgeable and extremely inspirational person. I'd recommend everyone to watch and read his stuff. I don't think it's even possible to pick what I love and appreciate. It's everything. Franklin Covey is also up there with him along with Zig and Tony Robbins.
But honestly, the self help stuff was needed when I was going through my darkest times. They made me feel human and normal. So not everyone will need it. If Dr. Dyer was big right now, I probably would not be into it because right now my life is stable and perfect. And perfect, I don't mean better than anyone else's. My life has turned out just the way I wanted it and that's perfect in my eyes. It wasn't an easy road...in fact it felt more like having gone straight through a tornado in which you never knew when it'll ever end. Still, even though things are bright nowadays, there are bad days and good days and horrible days and extremely exciting superbly happy days but it's life and it's good. I'm always thankful for freedom and for the struggles my parents went through from Laos to the Thailand refugee camps to the U.S. and that greater power I call God whom guided my parents and my two sisters and I (now there are more of us) safely to the camp and the wonderful family who sponsored us to the U.S. And, I'm grateful for a wonderful loving, over loving husband who's worked so hard to provide for me and our two daughters. And of course, I couldn't be more happier and grateful for my two girls who love me more than the universe itself.
But having said all that, my heart is still in the sci-fi world when it comes to reading. I love the feel of shining metal, matted metal, outer space, stars, starships, outer space suits and gears. I can't resist the destruction of a world (not alway earth but a made up world works perfect) where everything is displaced and people have to start over, or if they have started over, what they do with their lives and how they live in their new world. And, most of all, I love great description and character development of protagonists and antagonists that really bring the stories to life.