Writer, Agilist, Elder Geek
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
by David Allen
# ISBN-10: 0142000280
# ISBN-13: 978-0142000281
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SUMMARY: If you're willing to take a shot at re-organizing the way you organize your life, this is a must-read book.
So last week we discussed how fandom teaches you good business sense, one of those useful "general skills" you'll need in your life. This week we'll explore another thing fandom teaches you.
Customer Service.
As I noted previously, many fandom activities are run like businesses – conventions, websites, etc. They may not make money, of course – they may not be intended to – but they are like businesses in almost all regards. Thus they are very educational to work on because you learn good business sense.
In the Great Recession there are always tales of people's grandparents or parents or relatives in the Great Depression. There's always someone discussing what influence those tough times had on their family.
There's also historians discussing issues even further back. They discuss earlier recessions and earlier social changes and what people learned.
it appears one of the booming business in the Great Recession is talking about what people in past times of economic crisis learned and did. So here's a lesson to take away from that.
You're going to be shaped in adversity, so choose how you're going to be shaped. You're gonna get the adversity anyway.