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Wayne Dyer's 1976 book on feelings, habits, self-worth, guilt and living in the present moment

Your Erroneous Zones

by Wayne W. Dyer

1976Easy readSteady pace
★ Best-selling self-help books, reported an estimated 100 million copies sold

Fourteen years of ideas about choosing your own reactions

Funk & Wagnalls first issued Wayne W. Dyer's book in April 1976. Its chapters cover the brevity of life, feelings as reactions a person chooses to have, habits that change through patience and persistence, self-worth and self-love, approval seeking and its cultural sources, guilt and worry, and security, fear of failure and openness to new experiences. Living in the present moment is a theme throughout. Albert Ellis said the book was derived from his Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy, and later called it a good book.

More about this book

Who

Wayne W. Dyer, the author, and the psychotherapist Albert Ellis, whose therapy Ellis said the book was derived from.

World

Everyday emotional habits, from guilt and worry to approval seeking.

What makes it different

Wikipedia's lead calls it one of the best-selling books of all time, with an estimated 100 million copies sold and no year given. That is the highest figure on this list, and we have not found an audited source for it. It spent 64 weeks on the New York Times list through November 13, 1977, and reached No. 1 the week of May 8, 1977.

Feel

Direct and upbeat.

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Further reading

About the author

Wayne W. Dyer1 book on Tori Books