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digitaldiscipline
digitaldisciplineHaving done my mini grocery run, broadened my mind via online job training, and wearing ruts in the internet, the day continues to drag. With that in mind, this bit of fluff, courtesy of ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
marchenland:
The Rules:
1. Grab the nearest book with a blue cover.
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find, just the closest blue book.
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, Stephen R. Covey
marchenland:The Rules:
1. Grab the nearest book with a blue cover.
2. Open the book to page 86.
3. Find the first full paragraph
4. Post the text in your journal along with these instructions.
5. Don't search around and look for the coolest book you can find, just the closest blue book.
The Seven Habits of Highly Successful People, Stephen R. Covey
Indirect control problems are solved by changing our methods of influence. These are the "Public Victories" of Habits 4, 5, and 6. I have personally identified over 30 separate methods of human influence -- as separate as empathy is from confrontation, as separate as example is from persuasion. Most people have only three or four of these methods in their repertoire, starting usually with reasoning, and if that doesn't work, moving to flight or fight. How liberating it is to accept the idea that I can learn new methods of human influence instead of constantly trying to use old ineffective methods to "shape up" someone else!
