Summary of Manuel J. Smith's When I Say No

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 It is important to know what will work, not why it will work. We must accept that psychology has little to offer us that can’t be explained by simpler assumptions. #2 People outside your family can also cause problems. If your friend suggests doing something you don’t like, the automatic response is to make up an excuse, and at the same time feel like a guilty sneak for doing so. #3 We humans are the most successful, adaptive, and smartest biological organisms ever created. We can see this evidence and general conclusions from anthropologists, zoologists, and other scientists. #4 While the nonhuman animal species have only two major inherited survival coping behaviors, fight or flight, humans have three: fight, flight, and a verbal problem-solving ability.