The I Factor™

Cathy L.

Amazing book!!!! Must read whether you are having issues with your relationships or not. I could not stop reading once I started and helped me tremendously to find peace in me while I was going thru hard time with my personal relationships. Very easy to connect with your personal experience… no word can explain how great and yet fun this book is, unless you read the book yourself!!!!

Cathy L. // Aug 22 2012

Tenafly77

The most helpful self-help book I’ve read. Excellent book. Very to the point and written for intelligent people who are typically too busy to read self-help books (which means that they’re too busy to be intimate). This book made me realize how crucial intimacy is to contentment and meaning, and the only way to avoid loneliness. It made me realize that intimacy takes work and energy at home, with friends and at work.

The book doesn’t criticize or pass judgment. It just speaks plainly. Unlike other self-help books covering a narrow subject, it never gets redundant. It makes a key point and moves on. I appreciate the avoidance of personal anecdotes. Anecdotes in self-help books often seem contrived, and if the reader can’t relate to the anecdote, the point being made becomes irrelevant. Great idea to break up each point with a cartoon or quote. It clears the mind so that the reader can refocus on the next point quickly and helps move the book along.

I’m not rich, but I have everything I need and more than enough of things I want. This book made me realize that if I achieve a more intimate life (both receiving and providing more intimacy), I will truly have everything I could ever want. Or, stated conversely, if one’s life lacks intimacy, having everything else still leaves emptiness.

Tenafly77 // Aug 21 2012

Richard Grenis

Much-needed, thought-provoking introspection. I live in New York City where relationships happen quick and often (just watch a few episodes of Seinfeld). When I began reading The I Factor I found that I was reading the words of people who were familiar with this world in which many of us find ourselves (i.e. an endless supply of masks; unwilling to show anyone what is underneath).

The advice is not too abstract and it is not preach-y but instead hits a balance of discovering deep feelings while providing real ways to practice intimacy. It is not an engrossing novel or a how-to book. It is a book that shows you how to look at yourself in ways you might never have before.

This book is not for people who think they have the perfect relationship or are scared of knowing themselves. Rather, it is for people who realize that relationships in their lives could be more genuine and fulfilling WHICH, IN REALITY, IS PROBABLY EVERYONE.

Richard Grenis // Aug 18 2012

Wendy Starland

Inspiring. Paul Weinberg and Susan Dyer have created an inspiring book with helpful and astute facts about intimacy. A great read with funny anecdotes and inspiring quotes, The I Factor is a MUST READ!

Wendy Starland // Aug 13 2012

Facebook is My Lover

Hensi Morris

Wonderful! Highlighter in hand, I could not put it down! It is my new bedside Bible. Helpful and inspiring. Love it!

Hensi Morris // Aug 12 2012

Lydia A.

Amazing! After a terrible break-up, one of my dear friends gave me this book knowing that I have been looking for professional help. After reading a few pages I decided to buy it in iBooks because I could not put the book down! Needless to say that I finished reading the book in two days and I am constantly quoting lines from it in my conversations to other people. I highly highly recommend. I can’t say enough of the great help this book has brought to me. You will NOT be disappointed!

Lydia A. // Aug 10 2012

Deepak Chopra – What is The I Factor

by Paul N. Weinberg and Dr. Susan A. Dyer

Emotional intimacy is an age-old concept that is under assault and facing all sorts of modern challenges.

Not a day goes by that we don’t read an article about how social media and interrupt overload are having a detrimental effect on our personal relationships, rewiring our brains to look like those of cocaine addicts. Meanwhile, despite living in an age of unprecedented 24/7 connection, in which Facebook, email, text messaging and other forms of electronic communication have us instantly connected to anyone and everyone around us, many of us are also experiencing a profound and pervasive sense of isolation and disconnectedness. We skate along the surface of our relationships, having swapped quantity for quality and frequency for depth.

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Kerstin Trimmel

Just finished The I Factor and loved it! Everybody go buy two books, read one yourself and keep it around, and give the other one to a friend, family member or partner. It’s super fun to read, a reminder and great eye-opener. How many times have you done someone wrong simply because communication wasn’t quite working? Most of the time, we don’t even think about “how” to say something before we speak, although it’s exactly those “little how’s” “that can make a BIG difference at the end of the day… I can totally recommend The I Factor!

Kerstin Trimmel // Aug 8 2012

Us Weekly – What Kristen’s Apology Means

If Stewart fessed up only because she got caught, does it count? “Confessing in advance is the right thing to do,” says relationship expert Paul N. Weinberg, adding that Stewart’s public apology won’t win over Pattinson. “It won’t heal the relationship but will repair her image with her fans.” PR exec Liam Collopy agrees: “Kristen’s words gave candid insights into how she was feeling.”

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