Archive for the 'Personal Growth' Category

Introducing self-improvement (or personal-development) 2.0

January 26th, 2008

(continued from part 3)

I don’t know what feelings did the last three posts send out, but this one should make you feel good. No, not superficially good, but good because you are invited to innovate a concept that has a worldwide reach; good, because you can change something influential in this world, and change it [...]

Fixing the self-improvement concept (part 3)

January 18th, 2008

(continued from part 2)

In the previous two posts I wrote about some of the ethical issues with which the self-improvement “industry” is faced these days. However, those problems might be of small importance for the end-users, the consumers at the market end of the chain.

The #1 issue for the consumer is this, “does it work? [...]

Fixing the self-improvement concept (part 2)

January 14th, 2008

(continued from part 1)

The first four issues of self-improvement, from the previous article:

Industrialized short lived artificial value;
Lack of coherence and/or connection between the presented ideas;
Lack of closure;
Inexistent entry bars.

The target of the series is to innovate the self-improvement (or self-help, whatever you call it) concept so that it will actually benefit real people.

At the moment, [...]

Fixing the self-improvement concept (part 1)

January 11th, 2008

“Without change there is no innovation, creativity, or incentive for improvement. Those who initiate change will have a better opportunity to manage the change that is inevitable.” - William Pollard
You might have noticed that my posting frequency has slowed down lately. Don’t worry (or start partying), I’m not leaving. I’m just getting started, actually.

The less [...]

The “where could this lead me?” question

January 3rd, 2008

Photo by: faisalee
How wise is it to call something good and wonderful without looking into the future and asking, “where could it lead me?”

Not too wise. And yet we do it all the time.

When someone earns more, he feels that it’s a good thing. When someone enjoys life more, he feels that it’s a good [...]

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