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Law Of The Garbage Truck (2011)

by David J. Pollay(Favorite Author)

3.55 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

1402788754 (ISBN13: 9781402788758)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

Sterling

review 1: Offensive to garbage truck drivers.The premise of this book is that many of us are too stressed out too much of the time and need a simple easy method to cope with bad things that happen every day. The gimmick of the book is to use the garbage truck as a metaphor for grumpy people and other sources of badness in life. The garbage truck is referred to hundreds of times as something that runs over people and dumps garbage on them. I don't know where the author lives, but in my neighborhood the garbage truck driver takes garbage away and tries really hard not to run over people. Even the publisher's blurb here on Goodreads points out the book's inanity by noting that negativity is like a "garbage strike," i.e. the absence of garbage trucks. The gibberish about garbage truc... moreks is completely baseless. The personal anecdote that the the whole book is based on is about a taxi cab driver; it does not even involve a garbage truck. There is just no reason for The Law of the Garbage Truck.Helping people to be less stressed out is a good idea. But this adds nothing new in terms of content, so the only plus-value is from the garbage-truck analogy, which is complete garbage. If you think it will help you to read the words "garbage truck" a thousand times for no particular reason, then this is the book for you. Otherwise, to get the same content without the incessant nonsense one could read many authors from Dale Carnegie to Stephen Covey to Kabat-Zinn to Lao Tzu, or any of the many books on modern happiness research.
review 2: “The Law of the Garbage Truck” by David J. Pollay (book to be released October 5, 2010, you can pre-order it now at the following-amazon or Barnes & Noble or at your local bookstore)-“Twenty years ago, while riding in the back of a New York City taxicab, David J. Pollay narrowly escaped a life-threatening car crash. The driver who almost caused the major accident started yelling at David’s taxi driver, who remarkably just smiled, waved and wished the other driver well before he and David drove away. David asked how the cabbie could remain so calm. His reply spawned the defining principle of The Law of the Garbage Truck and left author, David J. Pollay awestruck.His driver said: “Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment…And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally…move on.””I would be the first and definitely not the last to say I need this book more then anyone I know. I tend to let others “dump” on me and I very often am the “garbage truck” myself.There are 8 commitments to “The Law of the Garbage Truck”. Each commitment has a chapter explaining what the commitment is. My favorite part is the chapters following each explanation, where there are everyday scenarios of how to work through the problems that face us and how to recognize when you need to avoid your normal response to the garbage coming into your life. At the end of each chapter there is a “call to action”, where the author gives you a task to look into your life and make a positive change.The common theme that I found in this book is- “smile, wave, wish them well, move on and let the garbage trucks PASS YOU BY”.One of the eight commitments that I received the most out ofwas~1- “Do let your own Garbage Trucks pass you by.”I always make the mistake of letting past mistakes and hurts haunt me and cause me to loose focus on my own happiness. This book has helped me work through this and even though it’s only been a week of me applying these “laws” my attitude has been a lot happier. I still have a long way to go.I think everyone in the world needs this book. If we all could follow “The Law of the Garbage Truck” we would all be a happier people. And with this book translated into over 50 different languages it is becoming possible for others to get into the act.I Took the No Garbage Trucks Pledge After you are done reading this book, I encourage you to take the “No Garbage Truck Pledge” less

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