I’ve seen the cover in bookstores. I got the impression that even if the title was hyperbolic and baity, even if he did genuinely think he was smarter than everyone else, even if I thought so, the title makes him (and you if you read it) seem like an asshole.
Granted, even if you take the nicest possible book that can bear this title, I wouldn’t know what it should actually be called to sell well. The self help section is almost certainly 99% drivel, and I’m okay with walking past it almost every time, but every so often I wish there was some good stuff in there.
on one hand some of the these books make a meandering point that’s interesting sometimes, I find a lot of these books are written so that CxOs can read them on a plane and have new opinions for the next meeting after they land.
It’s not scientific, but on some level it makes the point that different people have different goals and motivations. If we assume that everyone has the same goal as we do, then we can become frustrated and think they are stupid for doing things wrong. I think that’s the main point of the book, not as a universal categorization of humans into behaviour groups.
Quick note, the author Thomas Erikson is unqualified for the book’s subject
I’ve seen the cover in bookstores. I got the impression that even if the title was hyperbolic and baity, even if he did genuinely think he was smarter than everyone else, even if I thought so, the title makes him (and you if you read it) seem like an asshole.
Granted, even if you take the nicest possible book that can bear this title, I wouldn’t know what it should actually be called to sell well. The self help section is almost certainly 99% drivel, and I’m okay with walking past it almost every time, but every so often I wish there was some good stuff in there.
on one hand some of the these books make a meandering point that’s interesting sometimes, I find a lot of these books are written so that CxOs can read them on a plane and have new opinions for the next meeting after they land.
It’s not scientific, but on some level it makes the point that different people have different goals and motivations. If we assume that everyone has the same goal as we do, then we can become frustrated and think they are stupid for doing things wrong. I think that’s the main point of the book, not as a universal categorization of humans into behaviour groups.