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Lizards Eat Butterflies

An Antidote to the Self-Help Addiction

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Lizards Eat Butterflies

By: Dr. David E. Martin
Narrated by: Dr. David E. Martin
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Lizards Eat Butterflies unveils David Martin’s deepest passion about how we’re living on this planet and how we could do so much more to improve our experience with a shift in perspective. In a triumph of cutting-edge science, social commentary, and deeply personal life experience, he shows us that, with an alteration in perspective, that which stands in the way of our humanity is an illusion that can be eradicated.

Far from being a 12-step program - this is the un-program in 12 sections - Lizards Eat Butterflies deconstructs the myths that trap us into victimhood, isolation, and futility. Having traveled the world for three decades of work and with the worldwide film success of Future Dreaming, along with many lectures and workshops, he weaves the narrative of this book to create a tapestry of provoking, thoughtful, and considered reexaminations of our dominant myths and perspective impairments. Lizards is a practical conversation starter to defuse the explosive challenges of inadequacy, indifference, and apathy.

©2020 David E. Martin (P)2020 Waterside Productions, Inc. Mental Health Psychology Psychology & Mental Health Health Self Help
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Dr Martin’s honesty and his keen ability to make you think outside your box. I wish the book was longer. I could have listened forever.

Blew my mind

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David is a man who has achieved at the highest level across many spheres and given enormously to many throughout his life - beyond the imagination of most and despite disabilities that would have stopped almost all of us. This book provides a set of provocations to help others begin to own who and what they are and begin to truly live fully, whatever that means for you. Ultimately, David is simply sharing himself with us, warts and all. Authentically.
Thank you, David.

An outstanding guide on how to authentically live

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This book is deep and many will abandon it before the end because it seeks to question your reality of life.

Glad I listened to this book rather than read it

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I really enjoyed "Lizards eat Butterflies". David Martin expresses the delightful simplicity of his points with humour and personal stories, while smashing the thinking paradigms that we have held to be true in the world's mainstream thinking for hundreds of years.

This book is one to go through again and again. I took it on board like a voracious caterpillar in the first sitting. I found myself coming back to read again and chew over key points as I inevitably stubbed my toe on a real life example of how I thought in butterfly when thinking lizard turns my perspective around in satisfying and rewarding ways.

Cuts through the popular mythology!

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brilliantly written to get you thinking about everything from a to z. you'll want to listen to it more then once

get your head out of the narrative

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