In seven habits' defense it is actually quite good in a corporate coaching environment if you find a trainer who knows his job. Anyway it is simply a method by which you can become more systematic in whatever you do, if you aren't already.
Life hacker is strictly on a caveat emptor basis, totally may not work for you. --srs (htc one x) ----- Reply message ----- 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. 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 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 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 > "Seven habits of highly effective people" is enough to make me turn > away. Neither am I interested in people of a spiritual disposition who > sell their Ferrari. > 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? S. -- Homer: Hey, what does this job pay? Carl: Nuthin'. Homer: D'oh! Carl: Unless you're crooked. Homer: Woo-hoo!