Comments on: SELF-HELP AND MANAGEMENT http://www.keneisold.com/2009/11/self-help-and-management/ whatyouknowyouknow Sat, 04 Sep 2010 18:31:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Ken Eisold http://www.keneisold.com/2009/11/self-help-and-management/#comment-266 Ken Eisold Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:32:48 +0000 http://www.keneisold.com/?p=564#comment-266 It's the former: the old strategies are old. It’s the former: the old strategies are old.

]]> By: Ernest http://www.keneisold.com/2009/11/self-help-and-management/#comment-264 Ernest Wed, 04 Nov 2009 14:23:16 +0000 http://www.keneisold.com/?p=564#comment-264 Ken, In your article you state, "Because they are usually grounded in adaptations to past realities, they linger in our minds with strong emotional residues. We often experience them as ways we need to act. As a result, people who try to improve themselves often end up failing." Are self-help efforts prone to failure because the efforts are based on strategies that suited past rather than current realities, or do the efforts fail because the old strategies were misguided to begin with? ...or both? Thanks, Ernest Ken,
In your article you state, “Because they are usually grounded in adaptations to past realities, they linger in our minds with strong emotional residues. We often experience them as ways we need to act. As a result, people who try to improve themselves often end up failing.”

Are self-help efforts prone to failure because the efforts are based on strategies that suited past rather than current realities, or do the efforts fail because the old strategies were misguided to begin with?
…or both?
Thanks,
Ernest

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