Manny’s review of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change > Likes and Comments
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In most fairy tales and hagiographies and the like, when someone is promised money and wealth and influence by teaching a new pseudo-religion that appeals to the masses and involves lots of empty cliches, it's usually a sign that it wasn't God to whom that someone was speaking...
Brian, good catch on the Campbell's soup. Though if Warhol had got involved, my first thought is a 24 hour long movie called 24/7, which just follows an ad exec around for a full day with no editing at all.
Ian, not sure about the empty cliches. As I try to suggest in the review, the odd thing about this book is that, IMHO at least, it has some worthwhile things to say. It's the way it chooses to say them that's so painfully banal and cliched.
Perhaps I should say "buzzwords" then? But when people start talking about "being proactice" and "synergizing," those sound like hollow cliches to me. Perhaps they have become so cliched BECAUSE of this book's impact?
I certainly won't argue about it being stuffed with buzzwords. But even so, when you look at the core message it's not nothing...
- He's done that already, but last time there were ten of them. Which ones got left out? And you better not say adultery.
I remember reading a MAD magazine as a kid after Reagan got elected. He was descending from Mount Sinai and had only one tablet/five commandments. One guy asks another, "What happened to the other five?" The response, "He's cutting back on everything."
I thought the buzzwords originated with him (their popularity, at least). Like Shakespeare being just a bunch of cliches.
No, the buzzwords were around before him. He may have further popularized them though.
My impression is that he put "proactive" on the map, at the very least.
Thank you Shabeer! Celestial insiders assure me that it happened exactly as I have described it.
I'm going to mark in pencil in the margin of your book the fact that I liked this review.
Did you hear that, everyone? Ian's got a paper copy that he can mark in pencil!
Soooo much more satisfying than an electronic version...
Ian wrote: "I'm going to mark in pencil in the margin of your book the fact that I liked this review."
Maybe we need a way to give star ratings for reviews.
(I can't bring myself to mark my paper copy, even with pencil, but I do have a slip of paper that has notes and references to my favourite bits.)
I can't bring myself to write on books either! Not, who sells books for a living, is on the other hand absolutely ruthless...
i think if some one recognised himself only...if he could find his abilities to do something good...to do something for society,family and himself...then his act as a a act of god...so god is npne of other than u
Manny wrote: "I can't bring myself to write on books either! Not, who sells books for a living, is on the other hand absolutely ruthless..."
I'm surprised. Devaluing her stock?
Mind you, I do make exceptions for text books, instruction manuals, recipe books etc. But never novels, poetry or glossy books.
hahah yes. Well said. I assume this isnt worth my time then
I liked this book and I'm sure that I'm going to follow the writer's advice and re-read it again and again in the future.
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In most fairy tales and hagiographies and the like, when someone is promised money and wealth and influence by teaching a new pseudo-religion that appeals to the masses and involves lots of empty cliches, it's usually a sign that it wasn't God to whom that someone was speaking...
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Brian, good catch on the Campbell's soup. Though if Warhol had got involved, my first thought is a 24 hour long movie called 24/7, which just follows an ad exec around for a full day with no editing at all.Ian, not sure about the empty cliches. As I try to suggest in the review, the odd thing about this book is that, IMHO at least, it has some worthwhile things to say. It's the way it chooses to say them that's so painfully banal and cliched.
Perhaps I should say "buzzwords" then? But when people start talking about "being proactice" and "synergizing," those sound like hollow cliches to me. Perhaps they have become so cliched BECAUSE of this book's impact?
I certainly won't argue about it being stuffed with buzzwords. But even so, when you look at the core message it's not nothing...
- He's done that already, but last time there were ten of them. Which ones got left out? And you better not say adultery. I remember reading a MAD magazine as a kid after Reagan got elected. He was descending from Mount Sinai and had only one tablet/five commandments. One guy asks another, "What happened to the other five?" The response, "He's cutting back on everything."
I thought the buzzwords originated with him (their popularity, at least). Like Shakespeare being just a bunch of cliches.
No, the buzzwords were around before him. He may have further popularized them though.
My impression is that he put "proactive" on the map, at the very least.
Thank you Shabeer! Celestial insiders assure me that it happened exactly as I have described it.
I'm going to mark in pencil in the margin of your book the fact that I liked this review.
Did you hear that, everyone? Ian's got a paper copy that he can mark in pencil!Soooo much more satisfying than an electronic version...
Ian wrote: "I'm going to mark in pencil in the margin of your book the fact that I liked this review."Maybe we need a way to give star ratings for reviews.
(I can't bring myself to mark my paper copy, even with pencil, but I do have a slip of paper that has notes and references to my favourite bits.)
I can't bring myself to write on books either! Not, who sells books for a living, is on the other hand absolutely ruthless...
i think if some one recognised himself only...if he could find his abilities to do something good...to do something for society,family and himself...then his act as a a act of god...so god is npne of other than u
Manny wrote: "I can't bring myself to write on books either! Not, who sells books for a living, is on the other hand absolutely ruthless..."I'm surprised. Devaluing her stock?
Mind you, I do make exceptions for text books, instruction manuals, recipe books etc. But never novels, poetry or glossy books.
hahah yes. Well said. I assume this isnt worth my time then
I liked this book and I'm sure that I'm going to follow the writer's advice and re-read it again and again in the future.
