On 8/28/13 9:26 AM August 28, 2013, Thaths wrote:
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't improving one's life just a collection of individual life hacks?
Some improvements can be
On Mon, 2013-08-26 at 12:37 +0530, Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Perhaps I've just met the wrong demographic among those who read
self-help
books, but most of those who have pushed such books at me were fairly
successful - and I wasn't aware of any failure that prompted them to
read
such
On 27 August 2013 19:02, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Why the dichotomy? Are you suggesting that personality/character is not
trainable/malleable?
Trainable - perhaps
Malleable - absolutely
Kiran
On 28 August 2013 18:19, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
Interesting observation and here is my explanation
The person/s who pushed such books were fairly successful in your
eyes, but they might feel that they are not successful enough. I have
seen this among several colleagues of mine, who
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:48 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27 August 2013 19:02, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Why the dichotomy? Are you suggesting that personality/character is not
trainable/malleable?
Trainable - perhaps
Malleable - absolutely
I still
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't improving one's life just a collection of individual life hacks?
Some improvements can be achieved by a sequence of locally optimal smaller
improvements, but not all.
Which is to say, you may not be able to hack your way
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:46 PM, Charles Haynes
charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
Which is to say, you may not be able to hack your way to happiness.
I have personal experience that is very much to the contrary but I'm
just a data point and not a representative sample size.
On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 9:16 AM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Isn't improving one's life just a collection of individual life hacks?
Some improvements can be achieved by a sequence of locally optimal smaller
When I say A hill climbing algorithm does not always find a global
maximum and you reply But mine did! I have three replies.
1) That does not refute the original assertion (as I'm sure you know)
2) How do you know? (That you found the global maximum)
3) If the plural of anecdote is not data, then
Well for one reason, you may have the problem that all hill climbing
algorithms are subject to. You may get stuck on a local maximum where
every small change (hack) actually makes things worse.
In which case you either have to completely change where you're starting
from, or you have to use an
On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 12:37 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps I've just met the wrong demographic among those who read self-help
books, but most of those who have pushed such books at me were fairly
successful - and I wasn't aware of any failure that prompted
On Sun, Aug 25, 2013 at 8:45 AM, SS cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
This can happen even without mollycoddling/spoiling (the autopilot). A
child can simply do well in school and college because his interests and
ability happen to coincide with the direction his parents want him, and
encourage him,
On 27 August 2013 15:53, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't speak to your experience of course, but it's my experience
that everyone was a stumbling beginner once upon a time.
I wasn't denying this.
It might be impossible to believe that a good cook was ever a novice,
but
On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
Technical books to increase knowledge and hone skills are not in the same
category as self-help, which deal in subjects usually ascribed to one's
personality or character.
Why the dichotomy? Are you
On 23 August 2013 23:23, Srini RamaKrishnan che...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
I began to wonder if hipster life hacking was different from self-help.
Maybe the difference between the two is socio-economic?
Are you saying being
I agree parenting support and the money cushions rich kids from life's
problems. I used those three as examples of grown up problems that hit
successful people in their thirties these days.
The college admission, the career, the marriage all happen more or less on
auto pilot if you merely turn
On Sat, 2013-08-24 at 12:38 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
I agree parenting support and the money cushions rich kids from
life's
problems. I used those three as examples of grown up problems that hit
successful people in their thirties these days.
The college admission, the career, the
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 20, 2013 8:48 PM, Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com wrote:
I was asking if GTD can be considered self help.
The above strongly indicates your question is really something else.
If not
why do you care one way or
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:44 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
The above strongly indicates your question is really something else.
If not
why do you care one way or the other? So, Thaths, what is your *real*
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 7:37 AM, Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Aug 20, 2013 8:48 PM, Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com wrote:
I was asking if GTD can be considered self help.
The above strongly
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
I began to wonder if hipster life hacking was different from self-help.
Maybe the difference between the two is socio-economic?
Are you saying being socio-economically backward might help in
preventing the development of a large
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you have a particular view on the self-help
genre?
My view is that judging by the fact that platforms in India are littered
with pirated copies of these books, there must be a large leadership. And
I guess you meant
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 12:25 PM, Vinayak Hegde vinay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Aug 23, 2013 at 9:05 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
Do you have a particular view on the self-help
genre?
My view is that judging by the fact that platforms in India are littered
with pirated copies
On Fri, 2013-08-23 at 23:23 +0530, Srini RamaKrishnan wrote:
Privileged kids don't usually face serious hardship that shatters
their confidence until their start-up fails, their marriage tanks or
their addictive habits get the better of them.
While I agree with the general point you make
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
I cannot remember seeing this thread in Silk when it first happened.
I stumbled upon this corpse when I was searching for something else.
That said, I had a followup question.
What do Silk listers think about blogs like Life
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Deepak Misra
yahoogro...@deepakmisra.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
What do Silk listers think about blogs like Life hacker or a GTD-focused
tip-sharing mailing list? Is they in the same genre? Or a different one?Are
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Deepak Misra
you asking about the efficacy of say GTD or a mailing list
dealing with GTD?
I was asking if GTD can be considered self help.
Thaths
GTD would be found in the self help section
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Deepak Misra
yahoogro...@deepakmisra.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
What do Silk listers think about blogs like Life hacker or a
GTD-focused
On Aug 20, 2013 8:48 PM, Sriram Karra karra@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:51 AM, Deepak Misra
yahoogro...@deepakmisra.comwrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
What do
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
The above strongly indicates your question is really something else. If
not
why do you care one way or the other? So, Thaths, what is your *real*
question?
I don't understand. Can you elaborate?
Sounds like Karra is
I cannot remember seeing this thread in Silk when it first happened.
I stumbled upon this corpse when I was searching for something else.
That said, I had a followup question.
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
Can't remember why, but
, totally may not work for you.
--srs (htc one x)
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From: Thaths tha...@gmail.com
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net silklist@lists.hserus.net
Subject: [silk] On self-improvement
Date: Tue, Aug 20, 2013 2:51 AM
I cannot remember seeing this thread in Silk when it first happened
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
What do Silk listers think about blogs like Life hacker or a GTD-focused
tip-sharing mailing list? Is they in the same genre? Or a different one?
IMO, blogs like lifehacker are task-focused rather than trying to improve
the
I quite like LifeHacker. A little less for the GTD-type info and lot more
for the smarter way to hack / use tech stuff.
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
I cannot remember seeing this thread in Silk when it first happened.
I stumbled upon this corpse when I was
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
What do Silk listers think about blogs like Life hacker or a GTD-focused
tip-sharing mailing list? Is they in the same genre? Or a different one?
IMO,
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 9:23 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 7:27 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 2:51 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote:
What do Silk listers think about blogs like Life hacker or a
GTD-focused
tip-sharing
Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Yeah, and could you please
start that thread, kiran? Can't wait to see the drift.
Here goes...
Can't remember why, but somewhere in between the half intoxicated
banter, the conversation shifted to self-improvement books a la
Stephen Covey and his ilk.
I read De
Self-improvement, to some degree, requires self-awareness. Self-help books
try to bake some of this in, but I think ultimately having the ability to
see your automatic thoughts and understand their motivators. I think this
is the realm of cognitive psychology, and I think they use many tools from
Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
provide strategy on self-improvement, rather than just glorifying the
end-product (which fashion magazines do).
When I studied object oriented programming a lng time ago, what
fascinated me was how much common sense sells. Almost all the
self-improvement
In fashion magazines, self-improvement is about products, as well as
strategies. You could argue that sex quizzes and tips on how to acquire a
16-inch waist form basic text-based methods that offer
enlightenment/improvement on consumption, much like a book with a six-step
process for success - in
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 7:05 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
'Team building' sessions that involve silly games at 'retreats' when
everybody would much rather be socializing over beer and food is another.
Fortunately whenever the team 'retreat' was organised by the team
in an
AA ad.
srs
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It would
be interesting to see where a self-improvement book, or series, places in a
corporate ecosystem. Does it confirm or contradict corporate values [such
as broad consensus can make them]? What else does it induce you to buy?
Would an organisation distribute copies of Covey among
Aadisht Khanna [12/04/09 19:50 +0530]:
Fortunately whenever the team 'retreat' was organised by the team itself,
food and beer was the norm. Anything organised by HR was the silly games.
But I found those fun too. Textbook learning and exams were usually done by
the risk and compliance
I don't find effectiveness sufficient incentive to look at self-help books -
I always imagine an epitaph for myself saying she was effective and
shudder with horror;-)))
On Sun, Apr 12, 2009 at 9:34 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian
sur...@hserus.netwrote:
Aadisht Khanna [12/04/09 19:50 +0530]:
Yeah, and could you please
start that thread, kiran? Can't wait to see the drift.
Here goes...
Can't remember why, but somewhere in between the half intoxicated
banter, the conversation shifted to self-improvement books a la
Stephen Covey and his ilk.
I typically stay away from them with the
On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
I typically stay away from them with the same amount of revulsion some
feminists have for balemia-inducing fashion magazines. Since I've not
read any of them, I may not be the best judge - but a title like
Top post.
Isn't Hindu (whatever that means) philosophy all about self improvement?
shiv
(Sent from my desktop that occupies half a room, weighs 300 Kg and consumes
1500 watts)
On Saturday 11 Apr 2009 12:45:11 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
Yeah, and could you please
start that thread,
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