According to news reports that I have read, the best-selling, most widely read category of books is the self-help/self-improvement genre. Hence, I have decided to start writing dribs and drabs, bits and pieces of a self-help book here. Have decided to make it one of those where a page only contains one (supposedly) insightful and profound statement, and the page facing it contains details related to that statement, or some cartoon illustrating it. This serves the dual purpose of making it seem very high-brow and arty (sort of), while allowing me to escape with just 50% of the work.
Below is the first installment of the book, will keep adding to it as I go on. Do feel free to send in your contributions too – as always, maximize collaboration and minimize work is my motto. Also, do let me know if you can think of a good title for the book, all I can think of is the ‘The Random Self-Help Book’, which is honest, but is probably not conducive to sending sales soaring.
Chapter Titled : ‘The Basic Difference Between People’
1) Only one alphabet – cLass vs. cRass
2) Some people are comfortable with silence filling the gaps in conversation, whereas others rush in to fill every gap with chatter
Chapter Titled : ‘Experience Says’
1) If you sit under an apple tree, mangoes will not fall into your hands; seek out a mango orchard for those
2) First confirm whether you possess the right set of keys, then bang the door shut behind you
By,
Zenobia D. Driver
2 comments:
wrt
Chapter Titled : ‘Experience Says’
Point 1) If you sit under an apple tree, mangoes will not fall into your hands; seek out a mango orchard for those
I would very humbly like to suggest a small addendum
Point 3) It was while sitting under the apple tree that Newton discovered the laws of gravity. Sitting under a mango tree won't help you discover anything because you will always be concentrating on the delicious mangoes. So, seeking out an apple tree isn't all that bad :P
wrt
Chapter Titled : ‘The Basic Difference Between People’
Point 1) Only one alphabet – cLass vs. cRass
Is this Left vs. Right or am i reading too much 'between the lines'?
Hi Arunabh,
Liked your addendum about the apple tree. Let me try and come up with corny self-help stuff and you can come up with such things - think the resultant output will be hilarious.
As for your second comment, no, I didn't actually mean left vs. right. Was just trying to illustrate that just one alphabet separates classy behaviour from crass behaviour - i.e. it's often a thin line that a lot of people cross very easily.
Zen
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