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The author of this book,Tom Rath, worked with his grandfather, Donald Clifton, to write this book.  Tom's grandfather was dying of cancer at the time.  The fist draft of the book was completed only a few weeks before he died.  Donald Clifton was a psychologist and decided one day that his profession needed to look at what is right with people instead of what is wrong.  Through his case studies he began to look at the positives and not the negatives.  The first chapter simple explains the meaning of the title.  Interactions with others that are positive fill our "bucket" and negative ones "dip" water from our "bucket."  When we interact with others in a positive way we add water to their "bucket" and when it is negative, we "dip" water from their bucket.

This book has caught my attention.  There is not enough in the first chapter for me to apply anything to my personal life but I like the book.