Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site rand-unix.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!rand-unix!edhall From: edhall@rand-unix.UUCP (Ed Hall) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Lifespring, est, etc. Message-ID: <1811@rand-unix.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 00:19:51 EDT Article-I.D.: rand-uni.1811 Posted: Thu Jun 7 00:19:51 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jun-84 08:28:30 EDT References: <997@hao.UUCP>, <19585@wivax.UUCP>, <346@kpnoa.UUCP> Organization: Rand Corp., Santa Monica Lines: 23 + I think that the `message' of these courses can be summed up in just a few words: GIVE UP YOUR EXCUSES, WAKE UP, AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR LIVING YOUR LIFE. Sounds simple, no? Well, lots of people bury themselves in excuses, drift blindly through life, and don't take responsibility for themselves. Why? Fear, and habit. So what do these courses do? Show the futility of excuses, the stupidity of self-numbing, and the finally the joy of feeling in firm contact with your life, resulting in the realization that there was nothing to fear in the first place. (And just knowing this does no good--you have to be made to *feel* it.) Their methods are sometimes extreme, their trappings pretentious, and their marketing obnoxious. And the self-serving gobbledygook they dress their simple message in is often a part of this marketing. But, they often work. They aren't my cup of tea, but that doesn't mean they aren't yours. -Ed Hall decvax!randvax!edhall