Personal Development Carnival

I entered yet another post from a few months ago in a carnival. This time it is Are You Chasing Dreams That You Don't Really Want? (Hint: You Might Be) in The Personal Development Carnival that was posted over at Creating a Better Life.

I chose that post for the carnival because it's a post that people tend to like. I thought it was pretty good at the time I wrote it, but I didn't expect it to take off the way it did. That post is actually the most popular post I've ever written for this site. I still get a significant number of referrals each day from places that have linked to that post. The only thing since that has really come close to it is the article I wrote concerning Steve Pavlina; The Ministry of Steve Pavlina.

Submitting my article to the personal development carnival is kind of a double-edged sword. It's not that the subject of personal development is bad by definition, it's just that stuff that's actually worthwhile to read in the vein of personal development is drowned out by so much garbage. You don't often get a post like mine that specifically tells lots of people to give up on their dreams.

Everyone interested in circlejerking about personal development should definitely go over to Creating a Better Life and check it out. There's bound to be a few articles in there worth reading and taking something from.

Carnival of the Capitalists

A more recent post that I'm pretty proud of, How Building a Giant Mansion for Yourself is Better Than Charity; Biltmore Estate was included in the Carnival of the Capitalists put on this week by Names@Work. The reception there was not as warm as I had expected, but at the very least the person putting on this week's carnival is evolved enough to put things in the carnival that he might not necessarily agree with entirely. I can always respect that.

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