Posted on 03/02/2007 10:18:44 AM PST by Hank Kerchief
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Hank
I found the 7 Habits program to be helpful, and anything but easy. Your brush is too broad.
Bump for reading later...
Some folks want other folks to fail and feel bad no matter what.
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.
Worse than the personal self help industry is the business version.
Hmmm..looks familiar.
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?
Is that a younger Michael Savage?
Reminds me of a line from Dinosours- "Dinonetics - the science of selling books!"
"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
Thanks for the ping!
42 bump!
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*
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.
I believe that too.
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