I normally do not read anything in the genre of self-help, but a friend told me that in her I Could Do Anything… Barbara Sher sounded a great deal like me. And indeed, her ideas fit with mine, but she knows more. I am getting a great deal out of reading at this book. I believe I recommend Barbara Sher generally.
Axé.
coldhearted scientist وداد 
I confess not to really understanding the appeal. From a brief reading of what you say and some of the stuff at Amazon, it seems that Barbara is catering to those whose lives have been pretty coralled, so that they’ve never had the space to be themselves, and to think their way through what they really want. According to my reading of Hattie, who studies this really well, it is a common female experience.
The distraction level in the U.S.A. is so high that women in fact don’t get the time to think about their lives and where they are going with them.
Jennifer, yes. And Hattie, yes … and I think that is really perceptive on the distraction level.
In terms of the distraction level, I had to really fight not to allow that to happen to me. Actually the constant encroachment on one’s space is a sign — apparently — that one is of a low status.
That´s true about encroachment on space but I don´t think that is what Hattie meant about the U.S. distraction level – which I don´t fully know how to describe yet, but I can refer to the speed of life, the expectations of repression (of one´s actual interests), the getting swept up, the ways in which it is considered almost obscene to know oneself or stay true to oneself if one does know oneself, etc. … I think Hattie may understand it better.
Sounds weird. I haven’t experienced that — only people feeling obliged to encroach on my space to show their dominance.
Hattie? Want to describe the distractions a little more from your point of view?