A review by treyhunner
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence by Gavin de Becker

3.0

At the beginning of this book, I was afraid this book would disproportionately focus on dangerous but unlikely situations without noting how unlikely many dangerous situations are. But I was pleased that by the end of the book, there was discussion about the irrationality of many statistically unlikely fears and the media's unhealthy obsession with events that cause us anxiety but are not an actual danger to us.

The book was long for what it was, but I found it interesting enough. A summary of the book, including the list of pre-incident indicators, would probably be good enough if you don't have time to read it in full.