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The book was translated and published in Dutch, French, Danish, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Arabic, Turkish, and in several Indian languages. [8] In the preface to his 1880 book, Duty, Smiles wrote of Self-Help, "In America, the book has been more widely published and read than in Great Britain".
An individual is considered industrious if he or she demonstrates perseverance and determination in performing a task. This term has also been used interchangeably with work ethic, [2] which is generally regarded as the attitude that hard work and effort is virtuous. Learned industriousness theory asserts that industriousness is developed over ...
“One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else.” “Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time.”
The book reached 5 million sales by November 2020. [80] By May 2023 the book had sold over 10 million copies. [1] In March 2019, Whitcoulls, one of New Zealand's leading book retailers, temporarily removed the book from their stores and online catalogue, apparently in reaction to the Christchurch mosque shootings. The withdrawal of the book was ...
Intellectual courage falls under the philosophical family of intellectual virtues, which stem from a person's doxastic logic. [1]Broadly differentiated from physical courage, [1] intellectual courage refers to the cognitive risks strongly tied with a person's personality traits and willpower—their quality of mind.
First Things First, sub-titled To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy, [2] [3] (1994) is a self-help book written by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill. It offers a time management approach that, if established as a habit, is intended to help readers achieve "effectiveness" by aligning themselves to "First Things".
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a self-help book by Timothy Ferriss, an American writer, educational activist, and entrepreneur. [1] It deals with what Ferriss refers to as "lifestyle design", and repudiates the traditional "deferred" life plan in which people work grueling hours and take few ...
Hence, persistence is now considered one of the four individually inherited temperament traits. [ 5 ] This model was further adjusted to include three supplementary dimensions of character, which are experience-acquired traits that develop over a lifetime: cooperativeness (CO), self-transcendence (SF), and self-directedness (SD). [ 5 ]