Word: self-help
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...Redd, it’s all about being effective. She thrives on the psychobabble of self-help—her thesis was on the evolution of self-help for young women—and she often falls into the cadence of a motivational speaker. She also loves to talk about role models: looking for them, being one. She happily recounts the e-mails, cards and letters saying, “You inspire me,” and times at the video store when starstruck teenage girls have come up to her to say that she’s their hero...
...says she got the idea to write her book and go on the self-help circuit when speaking on the phone one day to a 40-year-old friend who just couldn’t find the right...
...realize how empty your life was in the primitive days before you could e-mail your dishwasher. Celebrity magazines need you to care who the next Ashton Kutcher will be and not to think too much about why we needed the current one in the first place. And the self-help business needs you to despair occasionally of all this trend hopping so you can go out and buy the newest guide to simplifying your life and living in the moment...
Psychotherapist Kathleen Brehony is not the sort of touchy-feely, self-help author who will teach you how to become your own best friend. But if you can use more companionship in your life, Brehony is a master. Her wise new book, Living a Connected Life, offers helpful tips for people in a society in which sending an e-mail to someone down the hall is the norm. Too busy for relationships? Nonsense, says Brehony. You have as many hours in a day as everyone else. Perfect your small-talk skills, she advises. "It is the conduit through which strangers...
...Remaking Singapore In "The Lion in Winter," you reported on the fading economic prospects of Singapore [July 7]. To rebuild our society and bring back the vibrancy of the economy, the citizens must have a shared vision. Singapore is changing from a paternalistic state into a self-help state. The war on terrorism and the SARS epidemic helped bring our multicultural society together. We found courage. Now there is more emphasis on emotional intelligence and creativity. The concepts of entrepreneurship, meritocracy and pragmatism are changing society. As Singapore celebrates 38 years of nationhood, we are moving beyond youthful exuberance...