Miranda Sings (the satirical character created by YouTuber Colleen Ballinger) is quickly on her way to becoming a top-selling YouTube author. Only a day after Miranda announced its release, her Selp Helf book has claimed the #1 bestseller spot on Amazon.
Miranda’s book is currently reigning at the top in Amazon’s Self-Help section, beating out industry-favorite titles such as The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. And those books are already published. Miranda’s Selp Helf book isn’t set for release until July 21, 2015, so her #1 spot was garnered through initial pre-orders only.
Selp Helf will be released via Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint. The book’s Amazon description claims Miranda’s book will be an “easy-to-follow” guide to on pretty much everything, like how to get a boyfriend to how to perform magic. Selp Helf will be...
Miranda’s book is currently reigning at the top in Amazon’s Self-Help section, beating out industry-favorite titles such as The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen R. Covey. And those books are already published. Miranda’s Selp Helf book isn’t set for release until July 21, 2015, so her #1 spot was garnered through initial pre-orders only.
Selp Helf will be released via Simon & Schuster’s Gallery Books imprint. The book’s Amazon description claims Miranda’s book will be an “easy-to-follow” guide to on pretty much everything, like how to get a boyfriend to how to perform magic. Selp Helf will be...
- 2/26/2015
- by Bree Brouwer
- Tubefilter.com
Director: Various. Review: Adam Wing. Stephen R. Covey once said, “Strength lies in differences, not in similarities.” That’s certainly the case with The ABCs of Death, a 2012 American anthology horror film produced by Ant Timpson and Tim League. Their plan was simple, one movie consisting of 26 short films, shot by up and coming directors from 15 countries. Each director was assigned a letter of the alphabet and given free rein in choosing a word to create a story involving death. While the individual chapters were always going to be a little hit and miss, depending on your taste in horror, the quality of filmmakers is undeniable. Marcel Sarmiento (Deadgirl), Noboru Iguchi (The Machine Girl), Yudai Yamaguchi (Tamami), Ti West (The Innkeepers), Banjong Pisanthanakun (Shutter), Adam Wingard (A Horrible Way to Die) and our very own Ben Wheatley (Kill List) lend their skills to a disjointed, occasionally offensive, often engaging and highly recommended movie going experience.
- 5/9/2013
- 24framespersecond.net
We continue our examination of the business book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People in this interview with author Stephen R. Covey. Why was the book so successful, and what is he working on now?
What was the impetus for you to write The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People?
It was over about a 20-year period. I got the concept of a public victory following a private victory. The first three habits represent the private victory and the next three represent the public victory. One of the most significant events that triggered this is coming across a statement in Hawaii, from a book. It read, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space, lies our power and our freedom to choose our response. In those choices, lie our growth and our happiness." That was tremendously significant to me, and developed the first habit, to be proactive.
Why...
What was the impetus for you to write The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People?
It was over about a 20-year period. I got the concept of a public victory following a private victory. The first three habits represent the private victory and the next three represent the public victory. One of the most significant events that triggered this is coming across a statement in Hawaii, from a book. It read, "Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space, lies our power and our freedom to choose our response. In those choices, lie our growth and our happiness." That was tremendously significant to me, and developed the first habit, to be proactive.
Why...
- 2/18/2011
- by Kevin Ohannessian
- Fast Company
When you are in a conversation, do you listen with your own autobiographical filter? Or do you listen to actually understand the speaker? We continue our Leadership Hall of Fame series, a year-long look at the top business books and authors, with an excerpt from The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, by Stephen R. Covey.
The habit to "seek first to understand" involves a very deep shift in paradigm. We typically seek first to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives.
"Oh, I know exactly how you feel!"
"I went through the very same thing. Let me tell you about my experience."
They're constantly projecting their own home movies onto other people's behavior. They prescribe their own...
The habit to "seek first to understand" involves a very deep shift in paradigm. We typically seek first to be understood. Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply. They're either speaking or preparing to speak. They're filtering everything through their own paradigms, reading their autobiography into other people's lives.
"Oh, I know exactly how you feel!"
"I went through the very same thing. Let me tell you about my experience."
They're constantly projecting their own home movies onto other people's behavior. They prescribe their own...
- 2/15/2011
- by Stephen R. Covey
- Fast Company
Days after William Styron’s estate divorced Random House for a digital platform and Stephen R. Covey cut a “highly effective” deal with Amazon, publishing’s visionaries gathered at the New World Stages in New York last week to discuss a matter as critical as climate change: the evolution of e-books. Representatives from BBC, Google Books, Sony Digital, and Adobe headlined Mediabistro’s two-day summit. But this discussion of new iPhone apps, social networks, and innovative business models seemed but a pretext for group therapy over the fate of the industry. Confusion over copyright, representation, and, most importantly, revenue loomed throughout. Was Nook, Barnes and Noble's e-reader, a digital savior or a mere stocking stuffer? Was Google creating a digital utopia or crowding publishers out? And should we listen to the alarmist cries of William Morris, who is telling writers to “opt out” before they become victims of free content?...
- 12/23/2009
- Vanity Fair
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