Managing Oneself (2005)

This article is part of the Harvard Business Review HBR&#x27;s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself [1].<p>The book [1] itself is part of HBR 10 Must Read Series:<p>[1] HBR&#x27;s 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself (with bonus article &quot;How Will You Measure Your Life?&quot; by Clayton M. Christensen):<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.hbr.org&#x2F;product&#x2F;hbr-s-10-must-reads-on-managing-yourself-with-bonus-article-how-will-you-measure-your-life-by-clayton-m-christensen&#x2F;12572" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.hbr.org&#x2F;product&#x2F;hbr-s-10-must-reads-on-managin...</a><p>[2] HBR 10 Must Read Series:<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.hbr.org&#x2F;books&#x2F;hbr-10-must-read-series&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;store.hbr.org&#x2F;books&#x2F;hbr-10-must-read-series&#x2F;</a>

&quot;Of all the important pieces of self-knowledge, understanding how you learn is the easiest to acquire.&quot; It&#x27;s also not something that needs to be kept private, is it? I haven&#x27;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 astronaut in the photo should learn to tuck his pant legs into his boots, especially in a vacuum.

&gt; History’s great achievers—a Napoléon, a da Vinci, a Mozart—have always managed themselves.<p>Turned out OK for one of them.

The only source for the &quot;I refuse to see a pimp in the mirror in the morning when I shave.&quot; quote that I can find is Drucker hmself.<p>The German Ambassador didn&#x27;t resign in 1906. Maybe it was a deputy or a different country, or it&#x27;s just made up?

Related: 2-vol &quot;On Managing Yourself&quot; from HBR&#x27;s 10 Must Reads series.

Edit: Oh shit, I&#x27;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 &quot;good for what it is&quot;, 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 &quot;become unique and find your unique niche&quot;. Whether that&#x27;s good or bad advice, it&#x27;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.

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Can someone tell me what a &quot;reader&quot; is in &quot;reader vs. listener&quot;?