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The Secret Key to Everything
The Autonomist ^ | 3/2/2007 | Reginald Firehammer

Posted on 03/02/2007 10:18:44 AM PST by Hank Kerchief

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1 posted on 03/02/2007 10:18:49 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Fzob; P.O.E.; PeterPrinciple; reflecting; DannyTN; FourtySeven; x; dyed_in_the_wool; Zon; ...
PHILOSOPHY PING

(If you want on or off this list please freepmail me.)

Hank

2 posted on 03/02/2007 10:19:55 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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I found the 7 Habits program to be helpful, and anything but easy. Your brush is too broad.


3 posted on 03/02/2007 10:22:32 AM PST by gcruse (Having half-white Obama play the race card is like Michael Jackson playing the gender card.)
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4 posted on 03/02/2007 10:25:58 AM PST by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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Bump for reading later...


5 posted on 03/02/2007 10:26:21 AM PST by GBA (God Bless America!)
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To: gcruse

Some folks want other folks to fail and feel bad no matter what.


6 posted on 03/02/2007 10:28:04 AM PST by Khepera (Do not remove by penalty of law!)
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That's what drives many people to go to their alumni reunions. It's not so important that you succeed but that your classmates failed, and that's how you find out.


7 posted on 03/02/2007 10:31:24 AM PST by gcruse (Having half-white Obama play the race card is like Michael Jackson playing the gender card.)
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To: Hank Kerchief

Worse than the personal self help industry is the business version.


8 posted on 03/02/2007 10:32:21 AM PST by steve8714
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9 posted on 03/02/2007 10:34:58 AM PST by xp38
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Hmmm..looks familiar.


10 posted on 03/02/2007 10:35:02 AM PST by steve8714
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Landmark doesn't belong in the same basket with the garden variety self-help books. The latter are often helpful, though rarely to the tremendous degree they claim (same as tooth whiteners, hair care products, etc.), don't cost much, and involve no heavy pressure from an organized group. Landmark operates like a cult, though with the weird twist that they don't expect or want more than a tiny percentage of joiners to stay involved. Maybe their corporate version lacks the cultish marketing technique, but in the standard intro seminars, they get everybody revved up, and on the next to last day, they persuade everybody how great it would be introduce your friends to this wonderful thing -- bring them free tomorrow! And the last session is all about persuading the guests to sign up for the next round of the expensive intro session. Get people to hook their friends in for you, before they lose enthusiasm -- and so it's got to be done by Day 3. What does that tell you about the staying power of any benefits that new participants may imagine they have gotten from it?


11 posted on 03/02/2007 10:35:10 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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Is that a younger Michael Savage?


12 posted on 03/02/2007 10:38:18 AM PST by MHGinTN (If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
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If there is a "secret key" to financial success it is the motivational-training and personal-development industry

Reminds me of a line from Dinosours- "Dinonetics - the science of selling books!"

13 posted on 03/02/2007 10:57:45 AM PST by tacticalogic ("Oh bother!" said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.)
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"Landmark doesn't belong in the same basket with the garden variety self-help books. The latter are often helpful, though rarely to the tremendous degree they claim ..."

It's the hype that makes them not quite honest.

"... Get people to hook their friends in for you, before they lose enthusiasm -- and so it's got to be done by Day 3. What does that tell you about the staying power of any benefits that new participants may imagine they have gotten from it?"

Worlds.

Thanks

Hank


14 posted on 03/02/2007 11:00:19 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: Hank Kerchief

Thanks for the ping!


15 posted on 03/02/2007 9:51:25 PM PST by Alamo-Girl
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42 bump!


16 posted on 03/02/2007 9:52:52 PM PST by bannie
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A friend took me to Landmark Forum meeting once. I didn't like the insistence of signing up and trying to convince me that I need this course and if I didn't sign up, I was lame. In fact, I overheard a group leader saying we're having trouble with that one *LOL*


17 posted on 03/04/2007 8:43:39 AM PST by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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Your mind doesn't filter in your reality. It helps create it. That may be too much for most people to swallow, but I believe it to be true.


18 posted on 03/04/2007 8:45:16 AM PST by HitmanLV ("If at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking until you do suck seed." - Jerry 'Curly' Howard)
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I believe that too.


19 posted on 03/04/2007 8:47:09 AM PST by cyborg (No I don't miss the single life at all.)
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20 posted on 03/04/2007 8:53:33 AM PST by Lancey Howard
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