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How to Hug a Porcupine
- Easy Ways to Love the Difficult People in Your Life
- Narrated by: Julie Briskman
- Length: 1 hr and 15 mins
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Summary
Most of us know someone who, for whatever reason, always seems to cause problems, irritate others, or incite conflict. Often, these people are a part of our daily lives. The truth is that these trouble makers haven't necessarily asked to be this way.
Sometimes we need to learn new approaches to deal with people who are harder to get along with or love.
How to Hug a Porcupine: Easy Ways to Love Difficult People in Your Life, explains that making peace with others isn't as tough or terrible as we think it is - especially when you can use an adorable animal analogy and apply it to real-life problems.
How to Hug a Porcupine provides tips for calming the quills of parents, children, siblings, strangers, and other prickly people you may encounter. Among other tips, How to Hug a Porcupine includes:
- Three easy ways to end an argument
- How to spot the porcupine in others
- How to spot the porcupine in ourselves
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- Sidharth Damodar
- 13-02-24
Nothing....to be honest.
The assumptions of the porcupines taken as examples didn't relate to what I was expecting.
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- Amazon Customer
- 06-04-24
Hug with Empathy and understanding
I enjoyed this read and listen, it was short and easy to focus on the message. I usually find it hard to stay focused because some writers tend go on and on without making a point, however this one is different. I think it is useful to learn some of the strategies and adopt perspectives in this book if you have difficult people in your life, or even identify as one even if it is a little. I like the metaphor of a porcupine, it’s loving and adorable but doesn’t downplay the sharpness of some people and their attitude.
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- Mayre Maquine
- 07-07-20
I did not enjoy this book, sorry
I can't say that I found this book useful at all. Maybe I misunderstood but I found the whole narrative quite condescending. To describe a person as a porcupine works really well as a short metaphor. However I found that it works a bit dehumanizing to keep using the term all the way through the book. I also I feel like you are being told that you have the sole responsibility of making the relation with a (for a lack of better word) Porcupine work. You should have the patience of a saint, you can not get angry back, you can not let the things they say hurt you. You have to walk on eggshells to make them understand that what they did or said was hurtful. Maybe I completely misunderstood the text ( English is not my first language) but this was the impression it gave me and it made me a bit sad.
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- Charlie knight
- 16-04-24
Stop saying porcupine it’s in the title we get it
Listened for 5 minutes but it started to drive me mildly insane the respetativness of the use of the word porcupine was just too much maybe I’m the porcupine…
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