Monday, October 1, 2007

Tonight these two books are going

Finished packing last nights sales for shipment, ready to start posting some new ones, have two listings ending tonight - Three (3) Dilbert books by Scott Adams, the former Pacific Telephone office worker who took the contradictions and frustrations of working in a large organization and made them into a cartoon-world of his own invention. Learn how to manage Dilbert style or just enjoy the cartoons. You can have both. Or learn about the Dilbert future. You are living it now. It goes to the Post Office tomorrow, but where it goes is up to you.

The other book is "Personality Types - Using the Enneagram for Self-Discovery". The author claims he learned it from new age guru Oscar Ichazo and some Jesuits as a technique to categorize different personalities. Oscar claimed that he got it from some Sufis in faraway Afghanistan (before the Taliban chased them out!) The person who was best known for the Enneagram was that mysterious rascal Gurdjieff, who built a whole transcendent philosophy around the Enneagram. Many people have borrowed from his rich legacy of mystical ideas and the author Don Riso has tried to systematize the philosophy into a psychological typology. Many others have followed in his footsteps since he wrote this book, and there is even Enneagram jewelry for those who want to show they are "in the know". Learn to categorize yourself and those around you into a set of personality types based on characteristics given in this book. It makes for fascinating reading.

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