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49: In the long term, and for smarter audiences, doing good work beats these tricks.
by pg 18y ago
49: In the long term, and for smarter audiences, doing good work beats these tricks.
- buggy_code 18y agoI found this book far more insightful than a bag of tricks. Clearly, anyone who practices these rules religiously will end up living a very lonely, paranoid life. However, as a nerd that doesn't understand social dynamics very well, I've found this book to be of immense defensive value -- I started seeing how people utilized these rules (either consciously or subconsciously) around me, and have been able to avoid being influenced / controlled by them.
- samson 18y agoI think thats an unfair assessment of a good book. I was probably seventeen when I read the book, and have all but forgotten most of those laws, but I remembered many of the stories. Greene in the book carefully puts together an array of interesting stories of famous leaders, generals, businessman that makes the book enjoyable to read whether or not one agrees with his laws. My favourite chapter was "Enter action with boldness" which had in it a story of a poor Korean man named Huh Saeng. http://wisdomportal.com/Enlightenment/Huh-Saeng.html http://wisdomportal.com/Enlightenment/Huh-Saeng.html And I would add that "doing good work" gives you the confidence to "enter action with boldness".
- metachris 18y agoThe story of Huh Saeng is really good...! :)
- pg 18y agoIt wasn't an assessment of a book, but of the link it was a comment on.
- Psyonic 18y agoNo offense, but I thought that story was messed up. What kind of man forces his wife to live in poverty to take care of him for 7 years so he can be free to read his books? I understand that wasn't the point of the story, but it was hard to ignore.
- lsb 18y agoAccording to John Maynard Keynes, in the long term, we're all dead.
- Hexstream 18y agoIf John Maynard Keynes said it, then I believe it.
- eugenejen 18y agoI just checked. John Maynard Keynes has no child. So perhaps by leaving debt to other people's children is the best solution to cleaning up mess that we created for the moment.... Beside from a point of view based on evolution. The creator of the mess will not leave bad genetic material that creates the problem. And by creating the big problem, he helps descendants of survivors pass the selection and become more robust to the problem! How unselfish is it!