Comments on: Optimize Your Personal Brand (If You Want To Exist)

By: maxkalehoff

maxkalehoff — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 23:40:27 +0000

These days, I think we need the former and the latter. Optimization to
the rules of the system, plus integrity and authenticity.

By: Andrew Susman

Andrew Susman — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 21:31:42 +0000

“As success became more dependent on evanescent “impression management”, selfhood lost coherence. The older ethic had required adherence to an internalized morality of self-control; repressive as this 'inner direction' had been, it helped to sustain a solid core of selfhood. The new ethic of 'other-direction' undermined that solidity by presenting the self as an empty vessel to be filled and refilled according to the expectations of others' (Lears 1983 p. 8.”

By: maxkalehoff

maxkalehoff — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:40:27 +0000

These days, I think we need the former and the latter. Optimization to
the rules of the system, plus integrity and authenticity.

By: Andrew Susman

Andrew Susman — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 14:31:42 +0000

By: maxkalehoff

maxkalehoff — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 12:47:06 +0000

Thanks Jeff. Have been observing!