If you look around, you cannot miss the fact that people are living in a road runner culture, meaning , People want to do everything fast.

  • Speed publishing – Blogging , Twittering

  • Speed Talking -  IMs

  • Speed Dialing

  • Speed Dating

  • Speed Sex

  • Speed Walking

  • Speed Yoga

  • Yogaerobics - I saw this ad in Midtown NY and was  rather amused at the way yoga, an essentially slowing down activity  , is being marketed with aerobics tag

Nowadays it looks like people feel that Instant gratification is also too long. They want an instant gratification of instant gratification :)

However there are some people who realize that they are on this fast track, and ironically want to slow down quickly :)

Well, most of us at some point  or the other in our life time would have read some self-help book, be it on public speaking, seven habits , 10 rules, dozen things to do :) … It doesn’t take long for most people to realize that all those books serve no one but the publishing industry..

Given my view of how speed has engulfed all of us, I picked up this book mainly to laugh at the content. A self help book which was offering solutions to all our problems in less than a minute..Wow!! never though speed will enter self-help domain too :)

Audience for this book : People who want to quickly change themselves :) and people like me who want to laugh at the rather serious tone of the book.

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The author talks about 10 aspects of human lives .Happiness, Persuasion , Motivation , Creativity , Attraction , Stress , Relationships , Decision making , Parenting , Personality . He provides one minute solutions to each of these complex aspects of our lives. By the way, the author backs it up with scientific research :) People can go to any extent to sound rational.

If you want to laugh heartily , you can read this book, after all “Laughter is the best medicine”.

So, the author unknowingly is doing good to readers :) .Or may be the author is smart enough to cash on the speed culture :)