• dreadedsemi@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I read that and the tipping point, I can confirm you can be rich by writing a book on how to get rich.

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      One of the more reliable jobs in the old west was selling pickaxes to hopeful prospectors. They may not find gold, but they’ll certainly be buying your axe to try. Years after the area runs out of gold, people are still going to be buying your wares.

      It’s always been good business to sell products targeted at people hoping to make it big.

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        9 months ago

        it’s always been good business to sell products targeted at people hoping to make it big.

        Like selling gpu to crypto miners?

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    9 months ago

    It’s amazing how the most successful trillionare in history, Mr Stephen R. Covey, took time away from his busy days of superyachting and banging the line supermodels waiting for his attention to write a book sharing the strategy of his vast success with all of us. God bless 🙏

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    9 months ago

    I only read about half of that book but it had an incredible impact on my life. It didn’t impact my financial success but rather my emotional inteligence.

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      9 months ago

      Cool. You should finish it. It’s good.

      Goes back to sorting large money bills earned exclusively through the secret money technique at the end of chapter 12. /s

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        9 months ago

        I actually had a similar experience that I can speak to: I reached a point of saturation, I guess you could call it. I needed time to process and integrate everything I’d already read, smooshing more ideas into my brain wouldn’t have done any good.

        So I set it down and haven’t gotten back around to finishing.

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    9 months ago

    i took this 3 day ‘7-habits’ course as a network ops manager. myself and a couple others who were in there kept asking how we can apply this to our environment. they couldn’t answer and by the end of the three days they just flat out said that these skills won’t work at all in NOC management. i enjoy learning new skills, but those three days were miserable.

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      9 months ago

      I’m long out of sales and been in IT for 20+ years and I disagree. When I read the book what I took was everyone has a relationship bucket with good and bad feelings on a person. It’s a long slow process to build up the good bucket and it’s easy to drain it by filling the bad bucket.

      That book really helped me understand the hidden cost of how treating people can impact your career.

      Why I think it’s useful, in IT a lot of people are socially inept.

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    9 months ago

    More effective you are, more work you will have to do for the same pay. Be less effective and be happy.

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    9 months ago

    Effective at making the higher-ups even more money maybe. What a pyramid scheme.