NY Times magazine article

[psychomoustache]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/31/magazine/is-giving-the-secret-to-getting-ahead.html?src=me&_r=0

I really enjoyed this way of thinking about "getting ahead", considering my dilemma right now (to go back to school or not, going back means a lot more money, but being potentially *less* helpful to my patients and my family for the duration of the studies).

I like the idea that feeling successful might not be about the financial incentives, but about feeling like a productive member of the human race.

Even if I am part cat (see my avatar), humans can be okay too.

[Nords]

Fascinating.  Someone's finally putting numbers on the concept of "Take care of your people and train them".  Duh.  This explains it a lot better than the catchphrase "covenant leadership".

Thanks for linking the article.  This book's on my library list.

[ch12]

This is awesome. I'm totally preordering the book. Dr. Adam Grant reminded me of my mentor Irene Vlachos-Weber, who is one of the top 10 highest rated professors on ratemyprofessors.com. She is completely accessible for her students and she is ultra popular. During her office hours, there is normally a cohort of 6 or so people waiting outside - current and former students. She has her office hours posted on her door and she holds them for around 6-8 hours per week.

She finds lost souls who need to finish their senior capstone in psychology, normally suffered through by working in a psych lab, and gives them a senior capstone by reading books (which, for me, was total heaven). When a huge chunk of psychology seniors couldn't graduate, she taught a summer class which was a summer reading capstone. It was phenomenal.

She is one of the best people ever and probably the best networked person I know outside of the business school. And it's all due to how insanely helpful she is. For example, she is one of my references.

[lifejoy]

I emailed Dr. Grant and he responded. What a swell guy!

[arebelspy]

I emailed Dr. Grant and he responded. What a swell guy!

Poor guy probably got swamped after that article.

[ch12]

I read his book Give and Take and highly recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Revolutionary-Approach-Success/dp/0670026557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366332077&sr=8-1&keywords=give+and+take

It should definitely be on the Mustachian book list. It puts together all this stuff that I learned from negotiation class and my psychology classes and mashes it together for organizational behavior. One of the first things he teaches you is the best networked person in the world. I thought it would be Keith Ferrazzi, but I was completely wrong. The person who is the best networked in the world is nothing like Keith Ferrazzi.

[arebelspy]

I read his book Give and Take and highly recommend it. http://www.amazon.com/Give-Take-Revolutionary-Approach-Success/dp/0670026557/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1366332077&sr=8-1&keywords=give+and+take

It should definitely be on the Mustachian book list. It puts together all this stuff that I learned from negotiation class and my psychology classes and mashes it together for organizational behavior. One of the first things he teaches you is the best networked person in the world. I thought it would be Keith Ferrazzi, but I was completely wrong. The person who is the best networked in the world is nothing like Keith Ferrazzi.

That might have meant more if I knew who Keith Ferrazzi was.  (Yes, I ended up Googling -Googleing? - it.)

As an aside, it's funny how we read/learn in certain niches, and then we toss out a name we expect someone to know and they've never heard of them.

That happened with me recently and some author I can't remember (business or real estate author, IIRC - it was someone fairly big though, from my perspective, like Robert Kiyosaki or Dave Ramsey or whatever).

[ch12]

Haha - sorry, didn't mean to confuse anyone. In the small community of MMM readers, we all know who Kiyosaki and Ramsey are, but the world at large is not as well informed as MMM readers. I am used to hanging out with people who've read Never Eat Alone, because I'm in business school and networking is one of every impecunious business student's major goals.

And the other thing I really like -  MMM readers (/the guy who moderates the MMM forums) are proactive. I really like how your response was "I had to look it up" instead of "Stop trying to show off how many books you read." The MMM community is so different from the real world.

[arebelspy]

The deficiency in not knowing who it was was mine, not yours.

Yes, if you had said "Author of Never Eat Alone" I'd have known what you meant.

It was just funny to me that the exact same thing happened to me (when citing a name I thought was very well known) and then like a day later I was on the other end of it.  :)