Guru

A nice blog post from Rick over at Flip Chart Fairy Tales this week.

He says:

Motivational speakers are a bit like diet books. If they really worked, you’d only need to see one, then you’d be sorted for the rest of your life.

If even 10% of each audience went off and changed their lives after listening to one of these 'gurus' [careful, Rick], the speakers would soon go out of business.

Like much of what passes for personal development in today’s companies, motivational speakers are simply there for the entertainment of executives. You might just as well send them to see a stand-up comedian. They might even learn more.

Guru thinks Rick has a point, and will take the argument further.

If these motivational speakers' techniques work as well as they claim, wouldn’t they themselves be motivated to get a better job than continually presenting a load of pyschobabble to bored execs?

It’s a bit like pyschics - how come Mystic Meg hasn’t won the lottery yet?

Incidentally, for all of you that follow the stars (and thus believe that the position of heavenly bodies at the moment of your birth has a continuous influence over your fortune, personality, moods and behaviours), let Guru issue this reality check about the nonsense of astrology. Zodiac shmodiac.

As a cub reporter, Guru worked with a wise old hack known as the Silver Fox. He had started his journalistic career on local papers where his responsibilities were: obituaries and star signs.

That's right. The Silver Fox would return from the pub every Tuesday afternoon and make up the astrology column...

Leo - luck is on your side this week, so take a gamble on a game of a chance. Thursday is perfect for making new friends - it will be worth going out of your way to be nice. A family argument begins with money. And love wears sunglasses.

Read this carefully - a journalist made it up!

Anyway, Guru is an Aries, and we Arians typically don't believe in astrology.