People Are Idiots and I Can Prove It!: The 10 Ways You Are Sabotaging Yourself and How You Can Overcome Them

Larry Winget is one of the country’s leading business speakers and a member of the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame. He is the author of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers You’re Broke Because You Want to Be and It’s Called Work for a Reason!, and the Wall Street Journal and BusinessWeek bestseller Shut Up, Stop Whining, and Get a Life.

Larry Winget thinks people are idiots and he can prove it. The motivational speaker's latest audiobook denounces self-destructive habits. It's hard to argue his main points. It's true that people who smoke, drink, overeat, gamble, don't exercise, overspend, and just lie around are idiots. But his presentation is far from sophisticated, he reads rather than performs, and he sounds like a trailer park version of Dr. Phil. He spends way too much time talking about how tough his advice is going to be. And he pronounces the "h" in words like "what" and "why." His advice is straightforward and naïve: just put a "don't" in front of all the problems. It might be easier to swallow if he weren't so nasty about it. But clearly that's his schtick. M.S. © AudioFile 2009, Portland, Maine