Monday Blogcrawl

A day never goes by when I don't employ at least some of the advice of Dale Carnegie. But more and more I am realising the wisdom of his advice to listen twice as much as you speak. I am by nature talkative, and I am also a showoff, so am inclined to babble. But when I am quieter I have realised that I am more interesting and people trust me and like me more. So this month I am trying to be quieter and to make more of an effort to listen and to remember what people tell me. Here are some interesting self-help-ey things from the web from the past week:

• The Miami Herald has self-help critic Micki McGee writing about the recently deceased Stephen Covey and comparing him to Karl Marx
• Tom Chatfield is one of my newer obsessions, and on the BBC Future blog he discusses the seriousness of Twitter conversations and their potential repurcussions
• Buddhism seems uniquely suited to Geekdom, and Megan Quinn reports on a Buddhist Geeks Conference in  the dailycamera
• At Social Media Today Brian Cugelman has updated How To Win Friends and Influence People for the social media world
• A fascinating piece on Mary Baker Eddy's cars at The Mary Baker Eddy Library
• I've just discovered I am quoted in the latest Doreen Virtue book, so here is some of her daily guidance from the angels, from the You Can Heal Your Life website
• The Dale Carnegie training people offer some advice on how to overcome past mistakes

Recently deceased self-help superstar Stephen Covey (photo AP)