Managing Oneself (2005)(hbr.org) |
Managing Oneself (2005)(hbr.org) |
The book [1] itself is part of HBR 10 Must Read Series:
[1] HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article "How Will You Measure Your Life?" by Clayton M. Christensen):
https://store.hbr.org/product/hbr-s-10-must-reads-on-managin...
[2] HBR 10 Must Read Series:
Wikipedia: "Although there is ample evidence that individuals express personal preferences on how they prefer to receive information,few studies have found validity in using learning styles in education." [1]
Turned out OK for one of them.
Yes, it's so lazy. Modern people ought to pretend to greater laziness, and then things would go better.
I mean, everyone dies. Not that I'm elevating Mt. Everest climbers, but at least they're aspiring for something.
Now, if the message you're trying to get across is it takes more than motivation, and life is rife with failure, that I can get behind. But "don't try, there's no point" is the laziest, most self-serving twaddle ever to be uttered (and no, it's not Nihilism either).
The German Ambassador didn't resign in 1906. Maybe it was a deputy or a different country, or it's just made up?
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Peter Drucker, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?
I have to say that while that book is likely "good for what it is", I utterly and completely despised it for what it was promoted as. Essentially, What Color Is Your Parachute was the standard thing that career councilors promoted for how to find a job - however it gives the ordinary seeker of an ordinary job nothing whatsoever but rather just tells everyone "become unique and find your unique niche". Whether that's good or bad advice, it's not the advice said ordinary seeker asked for and it was shitty trick that ordinary career counselors handed job seekers this book by default.
One of the reasons "What color is your parachute" is promoted is that it discusses determining your skills and what you enjoy doing. It also promotes the idea that talking to people (information interviewing) is an effective way to find out deeply about jobs outside of the classifieds, the job boards, etc., when there are more job seekers than openings.
Isn't the book the basis of exactly what one would want a career counselor for? I'd expect a counselor to bring more personal and customized advice along, too, but telling someone to start with understanding the book doesn't seem like a bad approach. Now it's true that if what you're trying to do is get a job tomorrow, then yes, the book isn't going to help much with that... but that's not why I'd visit a career counselor either.
Right after reading it - i took the advise of calling companies out of the blue much more seriously, and the difference in conversations was encouraging.
It is: don’t use Napoleon, Mozart, Jobs, Musk someone who climbed Mt Everest in your silly article about motivation because it will backfire.
Someone being internally motivated by Napoleon or Jobs or someone who climbed Mt Everest is OK that is their own personal motivation.