Comments on: Personal Development Face-Off: Round #1

By: RechargeYourMind

RechargeYourMind — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:16:24 +0000

Tim Brownson!

Really liked his thoughts.

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Personal Development Face-Off: Round #3 — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:02:40 +0000

[...] all having a great Monday and are ready for Round 3 of the Personal Development Face-Off. The first round and the second round have proved to be a hit, with some great answers from all those taking part. [...]

By: Sundara Raman

Sundara Raman — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 05:17:30 +0000

Hi…
It was a very good ‘Face-Off’, and both of their answers were thought provoking.
I think that in subjects like self development, it is much better to not have any ‘winner’ as such (even in a non-serious way) and just summarize what people found best in each one’s answers and leave it at that.. Maybe we can add the number of votes to add ‘spice’ to it, but no pie charts and no ‘congratulations to X’ are needed I think…
Just a thought, I hope you understand.
Thank you for your excellent blog by the way.

By: Personal Development Face-Off: Round #2

Personal Development Face-Off: Round #2 — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:00:27 +0000

[...] Monday is upon us so it is time Round 2 of the Personal Development Face-Off. The first round was a huge success with a massive 266 votes, and thousands of visitors came to the page to view the [...]

By: Denise

Denise — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:20:52 +0000

Glen, this is a great idea. It was enjoyable, fun, enlightening, thought provoking, and more. Personally, I thought it was good that Alex and Tim didn’t see each other’s answers. Hey, it was so close for me and I was so into this that I had to pull out a scrap piece of paper to mark my scores; and even went through it a few times. (I know it wasn’t of a real serious nature.) Even though I like both Alex’s and Tim’s answers, for me it seemed it was the words they each chose to express their answers that was ultimately the deciding factor. With the last answer, I tend to side with “belief.” However, I also whole heartedly believe “growth” is very essential. So, only by a hair, and because there are not any loosers here, 1st place to Alex and 2nd place to Tim.

Because of your previous reply above Glen, as a suggestion, perhaps you could continue this to whatever amount of rounds you would choose and then divide the 1st and 2nd place winners into two separate groups. Have them do another round of different types of questioning.(Of course, you would need to have some sort of cut-off point for voting purposes.) Continue doing this until you have one-1st place winner. To explain-Lets say you went 20 rounds. At the end of the 20 rounds, you would then have 2 groups of 10. Then you would have the 1st place winners from rounds 1 and 3 face off, 2 and 4, and so on, just to mix it up a bit. You could do that on one day of the week; Monday. Then maybe on Thursday you could take the 2nd place winners and have them do a face off. After everyone involved had say 2 chances, then you could start your process of coming up with a finalist 1st place. This is merely a suggestion and hope my explanation makes sense to you. It could ultimately, if you were to allow it to of course, turn into something very significant. It would take on a life of its own; could get really deep.

I look forward to see how and what path you decide to take this. I’m sure it will be very interesting. Well done Glen!

By: Glen

Glen — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 09:25:31 +0000

Thanks Ivan, your favourite blogger has already taken part so his answers will be available in the next few weeks

By: IvánPérez

IvánPérez — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 06:46:59 +0000

Great idea Glen, I will keep an eye on this series. I voted for Alex, but I really liked the part where Tim talked about alignment for values.

By: Robert

Robert — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 23:10:34 +0000

Glen, it’s really an excellent idea. Learn a lot from them, and see how different perspective goes face-to-face. My vote goes for Tim, though… especially for the peace of mind answer.. that’s really an AHA moment!

By: Ilana

Ilana — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:57:18 +0000

In my opinion, Tim’s approach is more “mature”. I would say he is coming from a place of more experience and success, and I recommend his answers any day. Thanks for sharing this!

By: Vlad Dolezal

Vlad Dolezal — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 21:26:26 +0000

Whew, that was a tough face-off!

As much as I usually love your writing, Tim, and even though I liked your language better… Alex snatched my vote with the last couple of answers

(I really liked your “spend less than they earn” though :p)