Suspicious Remarks. 12 Most Effective Habits of “Social People” | I make it a habit to re-read the “7 Habits of Effective People” by Stephen Covey to reinforce the principles in my own work habits. On my last review, it occurred to me that with the amount of time people spent engaging in social communications, how might those habits have been written different today? While most will agree that connecting with your friends, colleagues, customers and influencers online is advantageous to personal and corporate branding building, the same number would likely agree that it takes much time and effort to successfully integrate online engagement with traditional offline communications.
Do effective people require new habits to be more effective in this new socially-connected world? I know many who have fared better than others in managing the time spent online. So I surveyed those colleagues who I felt manage their online time with the greatest effect and it produced the following list of the 12 Most Effective Habits of “Social People”. 1. Listen First 2. 3. 4 Types of Husbands and Wives (Or Why Marriage is Evil)
The 7 Types of Friend Everyone Needs. Just like a superhero team or jewel thief gang needs each member to specialize in a different skill set, a good circle of friends also needs a wide range of useful skills. While a superhero team might need a guy who is superstrong and a guy who has a lot of gadgets, your friend team might consist of a guy who can get you discounts at the Best Buy and a guy who's totally cool with feeding your cats when you're out. When I suggest assembling such a team, I'm not suggesting you go around preying on emotionally vulnerable people who can do useful things for you and pretend to be their friend. I'm just saying that if you happen to run into some cool people you enjoy hanging out with, who also own a pickup truck, don't take them for granted.
Sure, you can have friends that are just fun people, or that you are fond of for no logical reason, but that doesn't mean you don't also want to have friends such as: The Friend With a Pickup Truck GettyThis is way past it. That look. This is why I had Pat. Helen Fisher studies the brain in love.
Why humans are all much more related than you think - io9. Actually, the Bible doesn't say that Adam and Eve only had two sons. 3 sons are named: Cain, Abel and Seth, and then other unnamed sons and daughters are also mentioned. Hold on, Adam and Eve spawned the Sith? Only if after they left the Garden of Eden they went to a Galaxy far, far away. My boyfriend never read the Bible as a kid, and started to recently (can't remember why - he quit pretty quickly) but he got to the part where Cain goes off and marries someone from the land of Nod, and became OBSESSED (briefly/comically) with trying to figure out where she came from.
I just couldn't get him to understand that those aren't the kind of questions religious people ask themselves. (Having been raised religiously.) Or that, anthropologically, it always seemed like the first argument in the wars (read: genocides) recorded in the Bible supposedly committed by the ancient Israelites: God made us, therefore we are people and these other things that look like us?