Help Yourself
I go this book today, a pirated one (oops), of ‘The 7 Habits of Effective People’, or Successful people, something like that. I wonder how it will be. I have a low sense of belief in these self-help books. They are nice to read, and let’s face it, no book can give us easy answers, but still I feel they don’t live upto the expectations that are created around them.
Now I could be wrong, and often I am, but there are many people who seem to really dig into these books. Are they better at applying these tools in their lives and finding the true worth for themselves? Or do they just have lower expectations? Somehow I was expecting a lot more when I picked up ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ (original copy, left a smoking void in my pocket) and it was more Confucious than Wall Street, wise, yes, changed anything in my life, no. But my brother the investor was born out of this book (you can see for yourself @ journeytowealth.blogspot.com). Another slight disappointment was ‘Johnathan Livingston Seagull’. Good book, vey inspiring and with soaring narratives (pun intended), but somehow I expected a greater story. It was more like a story book, slightly dumbed down, into the form of a fable. And the greatest example of that, the grand masterpiece of this genre (which is not really a compliment) is ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Ouch, that book was bad, almost a betrayal for me, really. I mean, I get it, rat race, cheese at the end of the maze yata yata yata, you don’t have to spell it out for me. Rise to my level.
But maybe that’s me.
On a lighter vein, I watched a 45-minute stand-up comedy routine by a man called Russell Peters today. He’s good. He’s an NRI from Canada I think, or the USA (why do they say the US? Every country can be US) and he seems to specialize in identity/racial comedy, being the brown man in North America himself. The one I saw was a TV appearance I believe, Comedy Now. He has great bits on African names, his Indian dad and Chinese shopkeepers. Real nice. The only other stand-up comic, apart from Jerry Seinfeld, that I have liked. He’s 2nd in a field of 2. Jerry Seinfeld is a demi-God to me, and I will try and write about him another time, and try to do full justice to him (and obviously Larry David) later. I am a fan of his show, as you might have guessed.
Now I could be wrong, and often I am, but there are many people who seem to really dig into these books. Are they better at applying these tools in their lives and finding the true worth for themselves? Or do they just have lower expectations? Somehow I was expecting a lot more when I picked up ‘Rich Dad, Poor Dad’ (original copy, left a smoking void in my pocket) and it was more Confucious than Wall Street, wise, yes, changed anything in my life, no. But my brother the investor was born out of this book (you can see for yourself @ journeytowealth.blogspot.com). Another slight disappointment was ‘Johnathan Livingston Seagull’. Good book, vey inspiring and with soaring narratives (pun intended), but somehow I expected a greater story. It was more like a story book, slightly dumbed down, into the form of a fable. And the greatest example of that, the grand masterpiece of this genre (which is not really a compliment) is ‘Who Moved My Cheese?’ Ouch, that book was bad, almost a betrayal for me, really. I mean, I get it, rat race, cheese at the end of the maze yata yata yata, you don’t have to spell it out for me. Rise to my level.
But maybe that’s me.
On a lighter vein, I watched a 45-minute stand-up comedy routine by a man called Russell Peters today. He’s good. He’s an NRI from Canada I think, or the USA (why do they say the US? Every country can be US) and he seems to specialize in identity/racial comedy, being the brown man in North America himself. The one I saw was a TV appearance I believe, Comedy Now. He has great bits on African names, his Indian dad and Chinese shopkeepers. Real nice. The only other stand-up comic, apart from Jerry Seinfeld, that I have liked. He’s 2nd in a field of 2. Jerry Seinfeld is a demi-God to me, and I will try and write about him another time, and try to do full justice to him (and obviously Larry David) later. I am a fan of his show, as you might have guessed.
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