Re: [silk] On self-improvement

2009-04-13 Thread Venkat Mangudi
Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: > provide strategy on self-improvement, rather than just glorifying the > end-product (which fashion magazines do). > When I studied object oriented programming a lng time ago, what fascinated me was how much common sense sells. Almost all the self-improvement

Re: [silk] On self-improvement

2009-04-13 Thread Ravi Bellur
Self-improvement, to some degree, requires self-awareness. Self-help books try to bake some of this in, but I think ultimately having the ability to see your "automatic thoughts" and understand their motivators. I think this is the realm of cognitive psychology, and I think they use many tools from

Re: [silk] On self-improvement

2009-04-13 Thread Raj Shekhar
Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote: Yeah, and could you please start that thread, kiran? Can't wait to see the drift. Here goes... Can't remember why, but somewhere in between the half intoxicated banter, the conversation shifted to self-improvement books a la Stephen Covey and his ilk. I read De Bo

[silk] Talk on Internet, Transparency and Politics

2009-04-13 Thread Zainab Bawa
Dear all, The Centre for Internet and Society organizes a talk on "Internet, Transparency and Politics". Description: The 2009 general elections in India have been preceded by various initiatives that seek to provide information to the voters about candidates contesting the elections. The aim of p