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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4111 and 12:
Bag of weed and a WoW account - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -11/+41Lame crap everyone has heard a billion times before.
- zirtbow, on 10/12/2007, -5/+26I was going to post this list in comment form but I failed.
Please also mod this comment down to show I fail at commenting. - omatsei, on 10/12/2007, -5/+16If everyone had heard this a billion times before, everybody would be succeeding in life.
- splash, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13This is actually motivating me because I recognize a few things on that list that I do.
- cds0528, on 10/12/2007, -9/+18I agree... but it will make the front page sadly... It's a top "X" list, which = front page material.
- tocleora, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Yeah, well I'm tired of clicking on entries and seeing people cry about it. I don't like every entry that comes to the front page, in fact I don't read probably 90% of the entries that come to the front page, but crying about it in a comment isn't going to solve the problem. Obviously the majority (or at least enough people to cause this to go to the front page) don't agree with you, even if they are associated with someone specifically... that's how the site currently works, accept, do something to change it, or go somewhere else.
- brstilson, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13classic example of a story being dugg to the front page simply because the submitter is in the top 30.
Take your cabal and plague netscape with your lameness - usherzx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Yes, but this one is guaranteed to fail!
- BannaEast, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Boring, I don't need to be told how to fail
- TopBanana, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I got as far as "Avoid planning incremental steps"
- incognegro, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6How about the number one way to guarantee failure at life:
MMORPGs - tweakt, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7I was at a company for a bit which drilled into us this self-improvement stuff, but one thing stuck about goal setting... make them smart:
S - Specific
M - Measurable
A - Attainable
R - Realistic
T - Tangible
Plenty exists, google "SMART Goals":
http://www.goal-setting-guide.com/smart-goals.html - Keles, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7dont try and you won't fail.
- altcountryman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4"People who are living below their potential are not scarce." Nicely put - classic understatement!
- tont0r, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Everyone here says this thing is 'lame' ,'boring' and 'obvious'....
But you should see how the company i work for is run :( - Anonymouse3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I dugg this to spite all the bastards in here complaining.
:) - samste, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6this is so lame.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3A few people have mentioned that they think the "personal motivation", "self improvement" thing is a scam.
I disagree.
Some call the advice "obvious", "pat", or "nothing new". The advice is indeed nothing new, because their is a history of people using that advice and finding that it works. So, perhaps "time honored" is a better way of putting it.
The advice may be known or obvious to many, but not everyone knows everything. At some point people have to observe these things in their lives or have it pointed out to them through education.
Once educated there is the matter of following through on this advice. FWIW, I think this is the main problem for most people.
So, there seem to be two ways to spend money/make money on self improvement advice. Selling the education materials to people who have not yet discovered it on their own and in providing pep talks/inspiration to keep people following that advice.
There are many things that are fun to do, but hard to make a living at or hard to make a good living at so perhaps this is where the "scam" ( or waste ) comes in. Instead of telling people to pick up an old book on self improvement at the library the self improvement gurus will make a "new" system of 12 cds costing several hundred dollars.
To be fair, some of them may add value to this existing knowledge by making better compilations of them ( doing research, publishing the good advice, leaving out the bad stuff, presenting it in a more friendly format ).
It would be great if everyone could be self motivated in every aspect of their life, but nobody has found to instill that in every person for every problem. So, here is the second opportunity to make money........inspiring people to follow the advice.
While it may be cheaper/smarter to put motivational notes and get "new habit buddies" I will not begrudge anyone spending a few hundred dollar a year they have to get a "shot in the arm" if it helps them produce the results in their lives they want. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5Since when has burying anything actually worked except for, maybe, the inaccurate bury?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Lame crap everyone has heard a billion times before"
- and that nobody follows through on. People who are living below their potential are not scarce. You could see it as "pat advice" or as "time honored" advice, either way it has been around forever for a reason. - gbyte, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4but which one is worse? ;)
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I would think that would make you less of a failure, not guaranteeing it.
- macewan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2true and there are not many guarantees in life
:) - patna, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2At the very least, the article writer should run a spell checker before posting it for the world-wide web audience. It's "definitely", not "definately".
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Awesome. Irreverent, funny, and useful. I bookmarked it.
- mementh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1links dead... anyone get it to a mirror?
- anon48654, on 11/15/2007, -0/+0classic example of a story being dugg to the front page simply because the submitter is in the top 30.
I'd rather read this than another lame article about some "revolutionary" advance in technology, the goddamn Mac OS, or how the world is going to end because a republican farted.
Maybe digg isn't my kinda place. FARK is fun, but that gets old too. Does anyone know of similar link aggregators that post non-cliche links that aren't just about current events? Seriously. - spc2226, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5I logged in for the first time in months just to +1 your comment.. Hahahaha Amazing
- seopher, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1all companies have some form of "what you can do to avoid failure" idiot-sheets. We have a list of the 7 sins and how they apply to our work... It's just a normal piece of office/IT work I believe.
Either way, I'm sure I can fail in ways that list doesn't even mention. - seopher, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3urr, lame, obvious, but a top X list so it's on the frontpage. Hurrah for people digging without reading.
- OkayDoood, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0weed. abuse.
- dgh1973, on 10/12/2007, -3/+3Did Tony Robbins write this stuff?
Self-motivational stuff is almost always a scam, I'm surprised the site didn't force you to enter a credit card number or attend seminars before you could read it. - csrster, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1That's lame. This is brilliant.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1924681,00.html - unlivingrolan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1dugg down for lameness...
- mitchb13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2Duplicate from half a year ago.
http://digg.com/tech_news/10_Steps_You_Can_Take_To_Guarantee_Failure - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2They should change the name of the linked site to "capt.obvious.com". :/
- Trumpi, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1* yawn *
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1So basically, don't be in sales or marketing?
- Keles, on 10/12/2007, -4/+2I support that more then anything thing else ever.
- jlunski, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1Top ways to make your column tank:
1: Write it in a "negative" manner in a lame attempt to be funny.
2. There is no #2, he did it all with #1. - compassman, on 10/12/2007, -4/+1This appears to be the steps the Bush Administration has used to manage the war in Iraq.
- mitchb13, on 10/12/2007, -13/+8Also a duplicate
http://digg.com/tech_news/10_Steps_You_Can_Take_To_Guarantee_Failure - princemackenzie, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1If you don't like it, bury it. Pretty simple.
- gamma911, on 10/12/2007, -11/+3Digging this down - Lame
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