How long does it take to read The Gift of Fear?
Gavin de Becker
The Gift of Fear by Gavin de Becker takes about 6 hours 49 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 6 hours 49 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1997. 372 pages, about 102,300 words.
14 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 11 hours 22 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 6 hours 49 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 16 minutes |
The page count is the median across 17 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
The Gift of Fear is a 1997 self-help book by security specialist Gavin de Becker. It argues that people should trust their gut instincts when facing possible violence, since those instincts are often the most dependable form of self-protection. Looking for patterns in accounts of abuse and violence, the author presents violence as largely predictable. He examines settings such as workplaces, homes, schools and dating, and describes pre-incident indicators, which are behaviors that tend to come before an attack. Examples include forced teaming, excessive charm, unrequested promises and refusing to accept the word "no".
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Subjects: Violent crimes, Intuition, Psychology, Violence, Crimes against, Psychology, Social
