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Best Personality-Development Books

I am listing here, some of the best self-improvement books that i came across till now. They are really interesting and useful in improving one's thinkings.

Though i have not read all the books completely, i liked them by reading three or four chapters itself. Thanks to my Dad.

*)"The Amazing Results of POSITIVE THINKINGS"
By -> Norman Vincent Peale.

*)"7 Habits of Highly Effective People"
By -> Stephen R. Covey

*)"Badukalu kaliyiri" [Kannada] ("ಬದುಕಲು ಕಲಿಯಿರಿ")
By -> Swami Jadadatmananda

*)"The Magic of thinking Big"
By -> David J. Schwartz

*)"Unlimed Power"
By -> Anthony Robins

*)"You Can Win"
By -> Shiv Khera

*)"Manase nee Prashantavagiru" [Kannada] ("ಮನಸೇ ನೀ ಪ್ರಶಾಂತವಾಗಿರು")
By -> Dr. C. R. ChandraShekhar.

*)"Awaken the Gaint within"
By -> Anthony Robins

Don't miss if you get a chance to read.

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Recently a professor in MIT has put a new theory on right-angled triangles that has challenged some accepted norms in Geometry.

This theory, Prof. John Mentriffe says, will revolutionize area in mathe matics that deals with calculation of motion objects in space and design of the Universe.

Why CALL-CENTRE employees paid so much. Some Jokes

Customer : "I received the software update you sent, but I am still getting the
same error message."
Tech Support: "Did you install the update?"
Customer : "No. Oh, am I supposed to install it to get it to work?"

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Tech Support : "Ok, in the bottom left hand side of the screen, canyou see
the 'OK' button displayed?"
Customer : "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"

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Tech Support : "What type of computer do you have?"
Customer : "A white one."
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Tech Support : "What operating system are you running?"

Customer : "Pentium."

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Helpdesk: Click on the 'my computer' icon on to the left of the screen.
Customer: Is that your left or my left?
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Helpdesk : Good day. How may I help you?
Male customer: Hello... I can't print.
Helpdesk : Would you click on start for me and.....
Customer : Listen pal; don't start getting technical on me! I'm not Bill Gates
damn it !

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Hi, good afternoon, I can't print. Every time I try it says 'Can't find printer'.
I've even lifted the printer and placed it in front of the
monitor, but the computer still says it can't find it...
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Helpdesk: What's on your monitor now ma'am?
Customer: A teddy bear my boyfriend bought for me in the supermarket.
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Customer: My keyboard is not working anymore.
Helpdesk: Are you sure it's plugged into the computer?
Customer: No. I can't get behind the computer.
Helpdesk: Pick up your keyboard and walk 10 paces back.
Customer: OK
Helpdesk: Did the keyboard come with you?
Customer: Yes
Helpdesk: That means the keyboard is not plugged in. Is there another keyboard?
Customer: Yes, there's another one here. Ah ... that one does work!
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A customer couldn't get on the Internet: -
Helpdesk: Are you sure you used the right password?
Customer: Yes I'm sure. I watched my colleague do it.
Helpdesk: Can you tell me what the password was?
Customer: Five stars.
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Customer: I have a huge problem. A friend has placed screensaver on my computer, but
every time I move the mouse, it disappears !
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Helpdesk: How may I help you?
Customer: I'm writing my first e-mail.
Helpdesk: OK, and, what seems to be the problem?
Customer: Well, I have the letter " a ", but how do I get the circle around it?
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Lucky or Unlucky !!

Why do some people get all the luck while others never get the breaks they deserve?

By Professor Richard Wiseman, University of Hertfordshire


A psychologist says he has discovered the answer:Ten years ago,

" I set out to examine luck. I wanted to know why some people are always in the right place at the right time, while others consistently experience ill fortune. I placed advertisements in national newspapers asking for people who felt consistently lucky or unlucky to contact me. Hundreds of extraordinary men and women volunteered for my research and over the years, I have interviewed them, monitored their lives and had them take part in experiments."

"The results reveal that although these people have almost no insight into the causes of their luck, their thoughts and behavior are responsible for much of their good and bad fortune. Take the case of seemingly chance opportunities. Lucky people consistently encounter such opportunities, whereas unlucky people do not."

"I carried out a simple experiment to discover whether this was due to differences in their ability to spot such opportunities. I gave both lucky and unlucky people a newspaper, and asked them to look through it and tell me how many photographs were inside. I had secretly placed a large message halfway through the newspaper saying: "Tell the experimenter you have seen this and win £250." This message took up half of the page and was written in type that was more than two inches high. It was staring everyone straight in the face, but the unlucky people tended to miss it and the lucky people tended to spot it."

" Unlucky people are generally more tense than lucky people, and this anxiety disrupts their ability to notice the unexpected. As a result, they miss opportunities because they are too focused on looking for something else. They go to parties intent on finding their perfect partner and so miss opportunities to make good friends. They look through newspapers determined to find certain types of job advertisements and miss other types of jobs. Lucky people are more relaxed and open, and therefore see what is there rather than just what they are looking for. "

"My research eventually revealed that lucky people generate good fortune via four principles. They are skilled at creating and noticing chance opportunities, make lucky decisions by listening to their intuition, create self-fulfilling prophesies via positive expectations, and adopt a resilient attitude that transforms bad luck into good. "

"Towards the end of the work, I wondered whether these principles could be used to create good luck. I asked a group of volunteers to spend a month carrying out exercises designed to help them think and behave like a lucky person. Dramatic results These exercises helped them spot chance opportunities, listen to their intuition, expect to be lucky, and be more resilient to bad luck. One month later, the volunteers returned and described what had happened. The results were dramatic: 80% of people were now happier, more satisfied with their lives and, perhaps most important of all, luckier.The lucky people had become even luckier and the unlucky had become lucky. Finally, I had found the elusive

"luck factor" Here are Professor Wiseman's four top tips for becoming lucky:
1) Listen to your gut instincts - they are normally right
2) Be open to new experiences and breaking your normal routine
3) Spend a few moments each day remembering things that went well
4) Visualize yourself being lucky before an important meeting or telephone call.

Luck is very often a self- fulfilling prophecy

Have a Lucky day and work for it.