This is an amazing life changing book!!!

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I would like to give it 100 starts. After just only 2 hours of listening to the book, I started using it with my children (9 and 12 year-old boys). I found online a list of needs and feelings, told everyone in the family that I’m learning a new way of speaking so, if they all could please be patient with me while I am looking for my needs and feelings to express what I would like to say. I resolved every single conflict boys had while with me. There was no need for negative consequences. It is amazing. My 12 year-old had a lot of negativity in him and luck of self-esteem. It was breaking my heart, to not be able to help him. We did affirmations every morning, meditation, manifestation, countless hours of talking about power of thought and choices that only he can make. But nothing would really help him fully enjoy his life. This book teaches how to express your care to a person and what astonishing results come after when a person realizes that someone really cares about his/her needs. I realized that even after all the work I have done with my child, he still thought that no one cared and understood what he wanted. But when I started using words “your needs” over and over, he knew that I am here for him, for his needs and feelings and not just lecturing him about what he should do in order to feel better. As a result, I don’t have to ask kids twice for anything (taking garbage out, clean their room, make their beds). They feel good and they want to help me with everything. So far it’s been only 6 days since I started working with the book, and I can totally see a difference in myself. I love the way I feel, I love the way I communicate with people (including my husband), I love that I can express my own feelings and needs without blaming anyone or feeling guilty about it. This book is an answer from heaven that I was begging for. It did change my life in such a short time and I am very grateful it found me (or I found it :) ) Thank you Dr.Rosenberg from all my heart!

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I found this book to be like the Rosetta Stone

I found this book to be life changing. It is like the Rosetta Stone, in that so many areas of my life are able to be decoded, unpacked in a framework that works and makes sense. If I was ever in a position where I could take only one audiobook, this would be it.

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Very helpful for personal & professional conflicts

Wonderful book. I only give it a lower score for performance because the author/reader does a funny voice every time he is quoting someone else. It draws me out of the moment. This book has already helped me manage a few potential conflicts in my personal and professional life. I assigned it to one of my managers to help her talk to employees in a more healthy and helpful way.

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Enlightening

This book seemingly covers everything I was looking for to work on the things others echoed to me I need to connect better with them and the rest of the world, especially my anger.

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NOT the full book currently in publication!

This is an amazing book that I think everyone should read but there are several chapters missing at the end from the current physical book and publication, which I feel they should state more clearly somewhere.

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One of the most gentle books in the path to self d

Where does Nonviolent Communication rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

I am absolutely delighted.
Only and hour into this book and it already stands out in a sea of self development books. He is pragmatic, rational and simple in his ways of presenting his tools for us to better understand ourselves.

What did you like best about this story?

I love the concept, I love the gentle nature of his work and the applicability

What about Marshall Rosenberg’s performance did you like?

Everything.
I love his voice, I love his language.

What insight do you think you’ll apply from Nonviolent Communication?

Intelligent Self Expression

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I'm glad we have this book in our world!

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good value for your time and money

Well constructed and thought. It is nice to hear Mr. Rosenberg reading his own work, putting his emotions into the story with his own voice.

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Good Concept, Hard To Make It A Habit AWFUL readin

Would you try another book from Marshall Rosenberg and/or Marshall Rosenberg?

The book itself has a great concept. It is hard to make it an everyday habit though especially if everyone else around you doesn't do the same. You practice for a while then it gets forgotten because nobody around you does the same and you just go back to your own ways.

What didn’t you like about Marshall Rosenberg’s performance?

He should have picked some professional reader. It was so slow, that I almost fell asleep listening (I had to speed it up for 1.5x the speed to make it normal) and it was very "wet", you hear every breath, swallow, mouth noise in the reading. Something that I don't want to hear loud in my ears. For this reason, I don't recommend this audio book to anyone, I would advise to read the book itself. It's a good book.

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A must read hidden behind an annoying curtain.

The methods of non violent communication are fantastic, up to the point I was not able to bear the narrator anymore, it had already helped me manage a a fight with my direct boss, and turn it into a Pacific negotiation for my unmet needs, this is definitely a must read for self development.

Unfortunately, the narrator keeps gurgling and swallowing saliva every 5 words per sentence, at first I found it somewhat ASMRish, a few hours in I thought I was just not in a relaxed state to listen to it; but closing in on the last hour of the book I found I could not bear it anymore, I was having to use the book's strategies to manage anger, which I was building unnecessarily, trying to listen to the low quality of the book.

If you're in the mood for a relaxing listen, this might do it for you, but sometimes I just want a straight to the point, no lip smacking or gurgling, non interrupted narration, because the tone and voice of the narrator was fine, but very distracting with the noises. Besides, the audio is generally too low, so headphones are necessary if you plan on listening while doing chores.

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Great Content, But...

The content of this book is excellent. However, the narration is unbearable because of mouth noises (aka, mouth clicks). It needs to reproduced with a professional narrator.

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