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"Saying you “recommend” rather than “like” something makes people 32 percent more likely to take your suggestion. Using the word “whom” in online dating profiles makes men 31 percent more likely to get a date. Adding more prepositions to a cover letter makes you 24 percent more likely to get the job. And saying “is not” rather than “isn’t” when describing a product makes people pay three dollars more to get it. The language used in earnings calls influences companies’ stock price, and the language used by CEOs’ impacts investment returns."
~Jonah Berger
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The Right Hand path also aims directly for the sacred present moment, giving it different names, but the essential point to bear in mind is that consciousness itself is the alchemical force that transforms all limiting tendencies of mind into the gold of love-energy. Both Left and Right Hand paths seek this. The chief difference is that Left works from the sensory universe (via the body, and its immediate, localized sense of self) inward toward the numinous source. The Right seeks direct access to source.
Three Dangerous Magi
P. T. Mistlberger
In the interview, Hamid talks more about what he learned from writing in the self-help format:
…what I liked about the self-help book form was I started to realize that in a way I actually do write novels to help myself. You know, I sit by myself in a room for several years, which isn’t a normal thing to do, and out of it comes a novel. So there is some degree of self-help just in writing a novel. But also when I read a novel, I feel like there is a kind of self-help going on there too, that I’m going beyond myself, transcending myself, I’m encountering another consciousness, I’m leaving the place where I am.
To repeat Josh Shenk, writing is self-help, because “we’re writing to help ourselves.”
Self-Help as Oxymoron
austinkleon.com
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