Surrounded by Vampires
Or, How to Slay the Time, Energy and Soul Suckers in Your Life
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Narrated by:
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David John
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By:
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Thomas Erikson
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
From the Sunday Times and international bestselling author of Surrounded by Idiots
-- Do conversations with certain people leave you feeling depleted or exhausted?
-- Do you have colleagues who take a lot of your time but don't actually do - or contribute - much?
-- Are there people in your life who diminish you through their words, actions or inactions?
You could be surrounded by Vampires! International bestselling author Thomas Erikson will help you recognize and deal with the three most common Vampires that exist to take not give:
Time Suckers -- these are the Vampires who waste your time. Typically, they expect you to do all the work while they take all the credit or they require an outsized amount of your time while giving back little to nothing.
Energy Suckers -- these are the Vampires who suck out your energy and your passion. When you are around them, even for short periods of time, you leave with less energy than you started with, because they suck that energy right out of you. Energy Suckers feed on your passion, ideas and talents then leave you with nothing left.
Soul Suckers -- these are the worst Vampires of all. Be they family, friends or co-workers, Soul Suckers use you for their own gain and, consciously or unconsciously, make you feel smaller every chance they get. They are the people in your life who don't support you and constantly tell you what you can't do, why you are going to fail, how you aren't the right person, why you are fooling yourself, and more.
Aside from Human Vampires there are also Habit Vampires. Social media can be a time, energy and soul sucker. Addiction, negative thinking, inaction, procrastination and more -- all these things can suck the very life right out of you!
Fortunately, no Human or Habit Vampire can survive when the sun shines on them. With the help of the behavioural model made famous in Surrounded by Idiots, Thomas Erikson will help you spot the Vampires around you and find your light to vanish their influence for good.
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©2023 Thomas Erikson (P)2023 Penguin AudioWhat listeners say about Surrounded by Vampires
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- Anonymous User
- 26-11-24
It’s a decent book
It’s a decent book with helpful tips and some parts were very interesting and informative. One critique I want to make is that I felt the author didn’t have good knowledge of neurodivergent people, specifically autistics and adhd. He did mention ptsd and ocd but some things he was describing could very well fit for an autistic or adhd individual such as myself and I felt the lines were just blurred and it was all coloured with one paint brush. I also heard some judgments which I didn’t like, particularly with traits that the author himself has and it felt like he was being overly harsh with people similar to him. Of course this is just my opinion, someone else might feel differently but I felt like the author really needed to up his knowledge on the above mentioned things and incorporate them in the book.
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- Miss R.
- 21-10-23
Not a dull moment in this very long book
One of the best book I have listened to a very long time and straight to my top 5 best listens ever.
Informative book on behaviours without being overwhelming. Very honest book that reminds you to take a good look within and recognize our own behaviour too.
The humor in the book left me giggling on many occasion. I will listen to this book again
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