I've got the 1989 tape course and would have thrown it out if someone hadn't expressed an interest in it I think I got them in 1991 or 92.
I never completed the course which requires listening to both sides of one tape and actively attempting to put into practice what you learnt thoughout the day along with journaling. I found it difficult at the time to meet that requirement so stalled on my listening after the 4th tape. I realised that I was barely able to expend the time listening and not actually incorporating the ideas that he was presenting.
One other thing about the course that did bother me personally was the hyped up tone that Mr Robbins projected. He may be a naturally enthusiastic person and rather unique with the level of enthusiasm projected. I have never come across it before in a tape course or seminar only from door to door sales men. It bothered me because to me anyone that projects that much enthusiasm is trying to motivate me or sell me something that I may not want to buy and I became wary of what I felt was too much salesmanship type/level of enthusiasm. It actually crashed my intial personal enthusiasm for the course and is one of the reasons why in spite of the fact that I tried twice more to get through the course I never succeeded. I personally prefer the more down to earth self assured tone from presenters. His first tape course, each tape, sounded too much like an informercial. Fortuantely his books were much more digestable like watching an informercial with the sound off. Well not quite... watching informercials with the sound off is kind of funny. Some of those presenters act more excited than kids let loose in a toy or candy store and the worse hams are not the ones actually selling the product. I've seen infomercials where the product supplier looked like they wished they had a mallet or at least a fly squatter to get rid of the annoying present. Opps side tracked.
Alex
