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Why couldn't I just make a little book for myself that would include inspirational quotes from my own personal heroes and just read them out aloud them every da

Why couldn't I just make a little book for myself that would include inspirational quotes from my own personal heroes and just read them out aloud them every day? I mean seriously... That example scroll just seemed kinda tootsy wootsy, some might even say "gay", like in a harry-potter-fantasy-world kind of way.

ryanwaggoner 16y ago
You could. And probably should. I've thought about doing that myself, as I have no shortage of quotes and inspirational passages that I have collected from my readings over the years. But this book was a good place to start, and while corny, I found the message to be solid. Hey, this might do absolutely nothing for you, which is fine. Like I said, I found it helpful and I perceive a difference in my attitudes and behaviors after spending a year with this book. But that's just me.
- Alleyfield 16y ago
  I already have one. :) I didn't question whether this book has worked for you or not, it's good if it has and more power to you. It's about the reader's own attitude towards it. If you really believe in those passages (which, based on the passage, seem to be written like horoscopes) then of course they're going to work for you. Just like horoscopes magically seem to work into every situation. In my humble honest opinion, advice like "I will persist until I succeed" just creates train wrecks. Especially when repeated 75 times in a month. I also believe that self help books like this one tend to cloud the reader's judgement and inflate their egos - which is not nice.
mike-cardwell 16y ago
But then he wouldn't get the Amazon affiliate revenue :(
- ryanwaggoner 16y ago
  Yeah, that $0.48 commission is why I spent a year reading this book three times a day. You caught me.
  - lwhi 16y ago
    It's a bit mean to call you out over an affiliate link; but if you didn't care about the commission, you wouldn't have provided the link.
    - eitally 16y ago
      Of course he cares about the commission, but he obviously (I hope) didn't care about it so much that it became the reason why he wrote the post. It's just a bonus perk that happens to be available -- why should he turn it down?
    - pbhjpbhj 16y ago
      If I invite you to a party and you get yourself a drink when you get there did you only come to the party so you could get a drink? If you care about him not having the commission then it is simple to work around.
      - lwhi 16y ago
        I don't care one way or the other. However I do think it's slightly disingenuous to brush off a comment about affiliate payments in such a flippant way, when monetisation seems to provide at least some motivation for writing the blog (http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-update/ http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-upd...).
        ryanwaggoner 16y ago
        The original poster suggested that one could simply put together a booklet of custom sayings and read that, to which mike-cardwell responded that I wouldn't receive the Amazon affiliate revenue in that case. This makes it sound like the culmination of all the work I put in over the last year is to be able to post this blog post and collect some affiliate revenue. I find this completely ludicrous; I'll be lucky to make $10 off this post. I'd make more money billing for a client in the time in took me to respond to this thread. I put affiliate links on everything I promote on my blog, but that doesn't mean that I live large sections of my life out differently so I can hopefully collect a few dollars down the road.

ryanwaggoner 16y ago

You could. And probably should. I've thought about doing that myself, as I have no shortage of quotes and inspirational passages that I have collected from my readings over the years. But this book was a good place to start, and while corny, I found the message to be solid. Hey, this might do absolutely nothing for you, which is fine. Like I said, I found it helpful and I perceive a difference in my attitudes and behaviors after spending a year with this book. But that's just me.

Alleyfield 16y ago
I already have one. :) I didn't question whether this book has worked for you or not, it's good if it has and more power to you. It's about the reader's own attitude towards it. If you really believe in those passages (which, based on the passage, seem to be written like horoscopes) then of course they're going to work for you. Just like horoscopes magically seem to work into every situation. In my humble honest opinion, advice like "I will persist until I succeed" just creates train wrecks. Especially when repeated 75 times in a month. I also believe that self help books like this one tend to cloud the reader's judgement and inflate their egos - which is not nice.

mike-cardwell 16y ago

But then he wouldn't get the Amazon affiliate revenue :(

ryanwaggoner 16y ago
Yeah, that $0.48 commission is why I spent a year reading this book three times a day. You caught me.
- lwhi 16y ago
  It's a bit mean to call you out over an affiliate link; but if you didn't care about the commission, you wouldn't have provided the link.
  - eitally 16y ago
    Of course he cares about the commission, but he obviously (I hope) didn't care about it so much that it became the reason why he wrote the post. It's just a bonus perk that happens to be available -- why should he turn it down?
  - pbhjpbhj 16y ago
    If I invite you to a party and you get yourself a drink when you get there did you only come to the party so you could get a drink? If you care about him not having the commission then it is simple to work around.
    - lwhi 16y ago
      I don't care one way or the other. However I do think it's slightly disingenuous to brush off a comment about affiliate payments in such a flippant way, when monetisation seems to provide at least some motivation for writing the blog (http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-update/ http://ryanwaggoner.com/2010/11/october-2010-blog-income-upd...).
      - ryanwaggoner 16y ago
        The original poster suggested that one could simply put together a booklet of custom sayings and read that, to which mike-cardwell responded that I wouldn't receive the Amazon affiliate revenue in that case. This makes it sound like the culmination of all the work I put in over the last year is to be able to post this blog post and collect some affiliate revenue. I find this completely ludicrous; I'll be lucky to make $10 off this post. I'd make more money billing for a client in the time in took me to respond to this thread. I put affiliate links on everything I promote on my blog, but that doesn't mean that I live large sections of my life out differently so I can hopefully collect a few dollars down the road.