How to Manage Yourself!

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes. – Carl Jung

And this book titled, How to Manage Yourself  by Med Serif, proves skyhigh on this Jungian dictum to a tee! Yesss! This is one amazing inspirational read, that has a transformative effect on your entire value system. A precious gift I had received years back (or should I say, a decade back) from my mentor and friend, on my birthday, this book has had such a powerful sway over me and my value system, in any many ways!

Well, How to Manage Yourself has a variegated ensemble of ideas on every cherished topic that connects to managing oneself with gusto! 

That said, Med has divided this, his inspirational book into three parts!

The first part is titled, ‘Managing Oneself,’

The second part is titled, ‘Working with Others,’ and

The third part is titled, ‘Your Personal Life’

And I guess, Med Serif shouldn’t be judged sexist by today’s standards, when he says, way way back, decades ago, in the very opening chapter to this endearing book, titled, ‘The MAN in MANagement’!

Well, but for this little erratum, the book scores amazingly well on a host of topics that prove invaluable to our present crisis of managing ourselves, something that has become all the more violable, thanks to an array of technological nay techno-tyrannical masters that are vying with one another to make us abject slaves to their masterful maneouvres and tantrums on us!

The very first part to this inspirational read helps the reader get through, with much ease, across a range of interesting topics that connect with our utmost everyday necessities towards managing ourselves better and more efficiently at that!

Right from giving us those highly indispensable snippets on managing our time effectively, to making us take a resolve to the likes of ‘Don’t ever stop learning’, or giving us those lovely ideas to read faster and read better, or taking the tension out of our job, or giving us ideas on remembering faces and names, or great steps on how to profit by listening, or proven tips to making the right decisions, or giving us insights into the art of troubleshooting, Med has something on everything for the observant eye on a delightful platter.

The next two sections are of a different ball game altogether! They deal with proven steps towards working with others, and on managing one’s personal life!

Me thought of sharing with y’all, a few inspirational nuggets from these pages, which find such impactful relevance today, although this book was published almost four decades back!

Therein, I guess, lies the universality of the amazing values and etiquette that lay embedded within its hardbound spine and stem!

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