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"Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire."
It's also not something that needs to be kept private, is it? I haven't come across too many people expressing their preference on social media profiles and such. As if we are worried about getting bombarded by edu-spam.
The only source for the "I refuse to see a pimp in the mirror in the morning when I shave." quote that I can find is Drucker hmself.<p>The German Ambassador didn't resign in 1906. Maybe it was a deputy or a different country, or it's just made up?
Edit: Oh shit, I'm wrong below....<p>...<p>Peter Drucker, author of What Color Is Your Parachute?<p>I have to say that while that book is likely "good for what it is", I utterly and completely despised it for what it was promoted as. Essentially, What Color Is Your Parachute was the standard thing that career councilors promoted for how to find a job - however it gives the ordinary seeker of an ordinary job nothing whatsoever but rather just tells everyone "become unique and find your unique niche". Whether that's good or bad advice, it's not the advice said ordinary seeker asked for and it was shitty trick that ordinary career counselors handed job seekers this book by default.