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The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help Kindle Edition

by Greg Gutfeld (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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“Employing his trademark barbed, self-effacing humor,” a Fox News Host has written a New York Times–bestselling book on “living an authentic life” (The Federalist).

Greg Gutfeld wants to be your new guru, and he hates himself for it.

Before Greg Gutfeld was a Fox News star, he was a self-help writer who had no idea what he was talking about. But now, after years of experience, he finally feels qualified to guide people on the journey of life—call this book punishment for his sins, and a huge reward for you!

In The Plus, Greg teaches you how to brainwash yourself into better behavior, retaining the pluses in your life and eliminating the minuses. His approach to self-help is simple, and perfect for cynics; it’s not about positive thinking in the short term, it’s about positive being in the long term. With tough love and more than a little political incorrectness, he delivers sage wisdom such as:

-If you aren’t getting happier as you’re getting older, you’re doing it wrong.

-Resist the media’s command to expand destructive narratives.

-If you’re in the same place you were three years ago, wake up.

-Don’t tweet when drinking.

Modern life grows emptier and emptier as society becomes increasingly polarized, and even those who don’t subscribe to New Age beliefs are seeking comfort and meaning. In The Plus, Greg shows how skeptics too can advance themselves for the betterment of their lives and the healing of their communities.

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“Employing his trademark barbed, self-effacing humor, Gutfeld espouses maintaining a positive attitude and trying to think and act in an unconventional manner…one of America’s most brilliant, thoughtful, and humane commentators.” –The Federalist

About the Author

Greg Gutfeld is a New York Times bestselling author, satirist, humorist, and magazine editor. He is the host of GUTFELD! and cohost of The Five on Fox News. Prior to joining Fox, Gutfeld was editor of Men’s Health magazine. He later became editor of Stuff, helmed Maxim magazine in the United Kingdom, and was host of the legendary cult TV phenomenon Red Eye. He lives in New York City with his wife, Elena, and their show-stoppingly cute French Bulldog, Gus. Learn more at GGutfeld.com.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B081Z9B5YB
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Threshold Editions (July 28, 2020)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 28, 2020
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 2399 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 222 pages

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- #85 in Political Humor (Kindle Store)
- #148 in Celebrity & Popular Culture Humor (Kindle Store)
- #1,071 in Humor & Entertainment (Kindle Store)

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Greg Gutfeld has been called “outrageous and outspoken,” neither of which he denies.

Greg is a New York Times bestselling author, libertarian political satirist, humorist and magazine editor. He is the host of The Greg Gutfeld Show and co-host of The Five on Fox News. Prior to joining Fox, Gutfeld was editor of Men’s Health magazine. He later became editor of Stuff magazine, helmed Maxim magazine in the United Kingdom, and was host of the legendary cult TV phenomenon Red Eye. Gutfeld lives in New York City with his wife.

On The Greg Gutfeld Show, Greg parodies current events and converses on key issues, bringing a comedic twist to the news. Additionally, Gutfeld interviews newsmakers and culture critics on the major headlines of the week.

On The Five, Gutfeld is part of a roundtable ensemble of FNC personalities who discuss, debate and even debunk the hot news stories, controversies and issues of the day.

The Weekly Standard calls him “the most dangerous man on television.” According to the magazine, unlike other media darlings, “Gutfeld’s stuff actually is subversive, a stink bomb hurled into every faculty lounge, mainstream newsroom, movie studio, and nonprofit boardroom in America.”

Prior to joining FNC, Gutfeld was a staff writer at Prevention and editor-in-chief of Men’s Health magazine. He later became editor-in-chief of Stuff, where he increased circulation from 750,000 to 1.2 million and created controversy month after month. He helmed Maxim magazine in the U.K. and was a contributor to the Huffington Post, where he became legendary for his “inspired, lunatic ridicule of his leftwing fellow Huffers.” He’s been published in countless magazines, has appeared in too many profiles to mention and was only fingerprinted once.

He currently writes covering news and pop culture of the day, from a conservative libertarian humorous slant and has appeared on dozens of TV shows.

He is the author of nine books, among them, four New York Times Best Sellers, The Joy of Hate, Not Cool, How to be Right, The Gutfeld Monologues and newest The Plus: Self-Help for People Who Hate Self-Help (on sale July 28, 2020).

“Trust me, you don’t want him setting his sights on your hypocrisy and public failings. Consider yourself warned.” – Andrew Breitbart

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N. Elledge

Great read!

Reviewed in the United States on August 17, 2023

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This book is uplifting and funny - and I can "hear" GG's voice as I read this book! And the last line... YUP!!! Thanks for the LIFT!

Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2022

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This is an extremely HELPFUL book! Hate self-help? Fine. Want to help yourself? Perfect. The Plus by Greg Gutfeld is a great place to begin. This is a book that is tailored for people who want to turn their everyday occurrences into pluses and learn how to eliminate the minuses that drag them down. If you are one of these people, try giving this book a read.
In The Plus, Gutfeld divides the book between an introduction and 8 chapters: Why I’m Making the Mistake of Writing a Self-Help Book, The Giant Minus: Mob Rule, We See Everything and Want to Be Seen by Everyone, Defeating the Unbending Mind, The Prison of Two Ideas, How to Cancel “Cancel Culture”, Destroy the Desire to Imitate, What Doesn’t Offend You Makes You Stronger, and Conclusion: How to Finally End Polarization. Not giving into political correctness, Gutfeld tells you how he sees it, and wants you to take his advice to heart. He wants you to wake up every day and chose to be a Plus. He highlights that ushering in positivity doesn’t happen with positive thinking, it happens with positive being. He also advises you to avoid mob mentality on social media, never imitate; always be yourself, and one of the more important ideas, do NOT drink and tweet. These are just a few of the topics covered, you have to read the book. Trust me, it’s worth it.
If you thrive from tough love and have a sense of humor, Gutfeld can help. If you’re easily offended and hate self-help so much that you avoid it at all costs, this is not the book for you. I hope you choose to read, and I hope you enjoy this piece of art as much as I did. Read it, you won’t regret it (and maybe you won’t hate helping yourself quite as much anymore).

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Paris girl

Loved it

Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2024

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Great life lessons told in very funny ways

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Van

GG, as funny on paper as on tee vee

Reviewed in the United States on July 19, 2021

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Gutfeld has a unique way of looking at things. Funny and thought provoking, at times I would laugh aloud so hard it almost scared my wife. She got this for my birthday because I like his show. Was not disappointed, his sarcastic, acerbic wit seems at its heart to be a bit stoic. A good read if you want a change from the estrogenetic pap on offer across most media platforms.

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Mark Blackburn

Greg Gutfeld -- Charles Krauthammer but really, really funny too!

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2020

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THE PLUS - Greg Gutfeld
There are one or two people alive today (that I know-of) who can open their mouths and SPEAK 'social commentary' as profoundly as their writing, but none can make us laugh out loud while doing it, like Greg Gutfeld.

His almost up-to-the-minute book THE PLUS (“I'm writing this on April 18, 2020”) delivered to my frozen doorstep in darkness last night – a Covid-related first, during a 'code red' lock-down here in the world's “coldest major city” (Winnipeg, Canada).

“What did it cost?” asked my Irene. “Twenty bucks,” I said. (Almost true: 23 dollars American. So, 30 Canadian, eh?)

I sat by the fire and read it silently, while my wife did her word-search, and began laughing out loud. But the humor is deceptively casual – 'artless' (like lyrics by Johnny Mercer) in service of observations so profound they almost hurt to read. Like these (page 20):

“In other words, a huge but meaningless part of your life is actually under your control. You can collect likes or encourage hates. If hate is what you're best at, good news: we now place an enormous value on notoriety, one that even Twitter cannot satisfy. Some of the darker souls on this planet realize that it's far easier to shoot thirty people and live for years in press clippings and documentaries, than tweet a thousand times to an empty void.

[As] a simple return on investment, it's much easier to be Jeffrey Dahmer or the Joker than Norman Borlaug. The fact that you know the first two people better than the third says something (look him up – he's saved more lives than the Red Cross).

[Compelled to Google and learn that] two years before he died, age 95 at home in Texas, Norman Borlaug was awarded America's highest civilian honor (he'd won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970) for “saving the lives of more than a billion people.” He was, says Wikipedia “the American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution.

[The sidetrack was exhausting, and so I had to stop for the night at this page 20 of Greg's book at the words]

Perceived inequality is the polio of modern life, except there's no vaccine for it. It's now everywhere you look, when before it was invisible. This intensifies a personal emptiness that sees as its only solution, a public display of something – or anything. It can drive you into the arms of a mob, or perhaps worse – to a place outside all human contact where a violent spectacle becomes preferable.

[next chapter: 'THE MOB'S NEW BEST FRIEND: SOCIAL MEDIA.' May I perhaps, share more 'later' as the spirit of this book moves me? Please and thanks!]

REVIEW Part 2 1/11/2021

“In that way, I feel that I matter. It's like I am leaving a mark. And that's all you have to do in this world, is leave a mark. Just make it a plus not a minus . . . “
I was hoping Greg Gutfeld would conclude his latest book THE PLUS with a note about Red Eye – the show millions of Americans (and an estimated 14 Canadian Fox News subscribers) would DVR each Saturday night when it played at 3 a.m. He didn't disappoint. [Permit an aside]:
From its Preface – “THE PLUS and THE PANDEMIC” (composed exactly one year ago) when Greg wrote: “I pretty much finished this book on the second week of January 2020 – around the time I was reading about some weird sickness erupting in China . . . “
From that opening, to the book's last page, “POSTSCRIPT – WHY YOU MATTER” – where Greg says, “I will start with how I figured-out how I mattered . . . “
“I believe my purpose is also yours. You're here on this planet, so your good qualities rub off on other people. Every day you have the potential in front of you for leaving a mark on someone, in both a good and a bad way – the plus and the minus . . .
“Take RED EYE which will remain the weirdest show perhaps ever . . . and yes, it was on FOX News! That show was, for me, a strategy to impact conservatism by giving it an injection of manic, surreal absurdity . . . and I know it impacted the network – and you. Because of it I ended up on THE FIVE [where] I cleaned myself up a little but not a lot. I still try to create chaos if the show gets too comfortable. I still say things that sound dirty but aren't and I still play my godforsaken music.
“In that way, I feel that I matter. It's like I am leaving a mark. And that's all you have to do in this world, is leave a mark. Just make it a plus not a minus. You can be remembered for both, but only one, fondly.”

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Spoke_Junkie

An easy read

Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2022

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I have enjoyed reading The Plus a lot. Greg is able to get to each point he is making in just a few pages, and this makes the book an easy read. The book is basically a blend between Dr. Phil and Jourdan Peterson with examples from Greg's life. I can relate to many of the examples Greg has had and I can now see them in a different way. The book is well worth getting and taking a few minutes to see if you will also get a” crème pie of hypocrisy into my own face”.
I hope you enjoy the book, I did.

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Jim Coots

Good read.

Reviewed in the United States on November 25, 2023

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Read it. It is worth the time to type this review. And learn stuff and things about things and stuff. Helpful stuff to say the very leaxt.

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Stephen D. Blasche

This is a very positive and semi serious book by a very different but funny guy.

Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2020

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I liked the fact that I was not insulted by anything in this book. It is not red or blue and the advise about how we deal with the current country situation was well taken. We don't get an opportunity to see this kind of variety in most of the books we read. Greg is a very different (which is good) and very strange and funny young man. I can say that because I am not. I even looked up the weird music on YouTube to see what it was as I had never heard of any of it and I have been into music my whole life or 78 + years. I would certainly recommend this book to anyone who has an open mind and is not insulted by any aspect of the current social standing of this great country.

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Horatio Velveteen ;)

Great book👍👍👍

Reviewed in Canada on January 6, 2024

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Awesome book, got the hard cover, 10/10.

Mitchell

Great Read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 13, 2020

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As expected, funny read with some self help skills.

I actually tried the, that's interesting line. It works. The attacker became even more triggered.

RWF

Direct and no surprise

Reviewed in Canada on December 17, 2020

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As a fan of "The Five" it was a very good read. It is obvious that Dana and Jesse realize his rant is deeper and messaging us to take the time to look in the mirror. Good works by a very smart thinker and writer.

coached88

Greatness

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 8, 2020

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Greg rocks and delivers a straight forward , easy , fun self help book , which sets it apart from others !!

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Michelle

A great outlook on the world today.

Reviewed in Canada on August 17, 2020

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Omg I ordered a book , but must have ordered the CD set by mistake. Best mistake ever. Loved it. Such an honest, down to earth view of the world today.
Great book umm CD.
Awaiting you next book.

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