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It's an interesting book. May even be useful, if I stir myself to read it again and actually act upon a damn thing in it.
(I've read a ton of self-help books of various sorts; they tend to have similar prescriptions. So I suspect the hard part is doing any of it, not just reading it and applauding.)
One problem might be that you just forget about the self-help ideas by the time a situation where they would be useful comes up. Has anyone with an ongoing Anki habit tried making flashcards of useful-looking self-help material? Does it seem to help?
Yep, I've been doing so since about October, for the reasons you state (I was tired of reading stuff and forgetting it). Any time I run into a useful-seeming piece of advice I add it to Anki. I've also been systematically entering info from some productivity-related posts here into Anki (which is actually how I found myself here rereading this thread :D).
And looking back, it seemed to have helped quite a bit. I'll write a post about it when I consider my productivity has stabilized.
And so many of those books seem to have that same piece of advice: "Actually go out and do things; don't just read about them and forget to do them!"
Now that you wrote that, I also remember reading that advice somewhere. I just forgot it.
I wonder if this time it will be different... and perhaps, what could I do to prevent it.
Would a Memento-style tattoo be too extreme? :D