you're free to read what you want to yet still, word to the wise. self help books based on what others did and thus emulating them is seldom useful imo. It's a fallacy to think the outcome will be the same because you do the same things that a few people in the world do. It is what convinces people based on an extremely small sample size to quit college and start a business because bill gates and Steve jobs did so. If you haven't read any of talebs books I strongly recommend it. Fooled by randomness, black swan and anti fragile especially.I bought once a self-improvement book entitled The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People but I just found it too superficial and parts of it complicated. And I realized that if I want to be inspired and self-improve then I should just read biographies of very successful people or if not books based on scholarly data especially from recent advances in social psychology.
Anyway here's the book I once read:
But I liked Dale Carnegie's old book "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
I respect the effort of these authors but if you're preaching how to be successful then you must be successful. But a lot of the success of these self-help get rich authors are from their books.
in so far as how we subjectively define success yes. But what's sauce for the goose is not necessarily sauce for the gander. A lot of confirmation bias and narrative fallacy is at work when you try to explain why someone succeeds.
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That's a classic.But I liked Dale Carnegie's old book "How to Win Friends and Influence People."
Indeed.
Good recommendation. I do hope to get around to this. Have some plans in my head which I hope to execute. What do you do, though, if you don't mind me asking and how do you find this book helping you in executing your work?If anyone is into small business, I suggest you read this rather old book on smart marketing which the author calls "Guerilla Marketing." I find it very helpful and easy to read and practice.
I find it very helpful especially on staying consistent to target idea of business, reducing ad cost (we've decided to forego radio, leaflets, etc and focused on social media, FB in particular which has very little cost except for graphics and FB management which we outsource), and I must say we've increased our sales especially from repeat customers while expanding clientelle within the target market.
Best of luck, my man!
Let me guess. The first thing you drew is a dog?
Interesting suggestion.
I have heard that they have written some good philosophy. Also, I want to find out what they write about pre-Islamic Persia in the vernacular
The desirable skill question is interesting -
