One of the many requests I have received over the years, time and time again, has been to post more financial / self help media. It rates third among the most requested items from my readers after trains (of course) and surprisingly, hunting videos. Everyone has nostalgia for different things, and while I find that my interests are firmly set in martial arts, religious ephemera, and nature docs, that bias towards certain types of media certainly comes from my exposure to it growing up.
Last week, we looked at an informative course from a Christian perspective on the difficulties and the solutions to parenting as a single parent. This week, we’re looking at a self improvement guide for employees of the business sector from everyone’s favorite southern-drawed grifter, Zig Ziglar. We even get a chance to watch the color temperature of the tapes slowly change over time, turning Mr. Ziglar into a very loud, slender Shrek.
I try to encompass every type of forgotten media that I possibly can here on this blog, though I am aware that I am beholden to the narrow scope of what I can physically find around my area. I don’t live in a big city or any huge culturally influential sector (though I am close to Nashville, if that counts), so the range of what kinds of media I am able to find can sometimes be limited.
I do my best to bring y’all interesting and fun stuff that will never reach the streaming services and to present everything in a very-close-to-original format.
On that note, I do have a little housekeeping to do:
I recently received a (well deserved) take-down notice for my March 2023 upload of the movie Contact (1997) with Korean subtitles. You can check out the post where I covered this here. Unlike in the past with Youtube, this is merely an email alerting me that the video has been taken down. My account isn’t in any sort of jeopardy, and I have nothing ill to report about it.
In fact, this is the first time this has happened (thankfully). This was a digitization of a major motion picture, and I am not at all surprised that it was taken off the archive. I was just really thrilled when I found this Korean VHS of the movie because… well look at it, it’s so cool!
I’ve watched a ton of movies over the years with “baked in” subtitles in many different languages, and I’ve grown to really like them. I especially liked the look that the subtitles had on this tape, and the one I found with it, a Korean subtitled copy of Mission To Mars (2000).
On that tape, there were Korean advertisements for Batman: The Animated Series and Looney Toons before the movie started, which I do plan to re-upload very soon, but I will, however, have to leave out the entirety of the movie itself. I will make a Note when I have updated that. You can check out all of my Notes here.
So, let’s dive in. I’ve got a 6 part series on how to better yourself, both financially and socially for y’all and it’s about 3 hours long. I’m trying something a little different this time, and uploading all three parts as a playlist on Archive.org. The link below will take you to the full course! Let’s get right into the tapes!
Zig Ziglar Presents:
The Qualities of Success
1990 | Runtime: 3 Tapes, 60 Minutes Each
Ziglar's Qualities of Success was created with a focus on helping your people succeed. This program is designed to help you grow personally and professionally in four critical areas: qualities, abilities, skills, and attitudes. By focusing on these core areas, you gain characteristics of success, professionalism, excellence, and perhaps the very best return of all: improved overall performance.
Qualities of Success will cover:
1) Planning, preparing and expecting to win.
2) Taking the first step to a brighter future.
3) Motivation, the key to Accomplishment.
4) Identifying the qualities of success.
5) Developing the qualities of success.
6) Maintaining a winning attitude.
In this valuable program Zig encourages you to remember, “You were designed for accomplishment. You were engineered for success. You were endowed with the seeds of greatness.”
Well, that’s it for this week! I hope you enjoyed the tapes! If you’re looking for more, please check out my page on Archive.org for the full list of digitized media. If you have any questions, feel free to send me a message right here or drop a comment below. If you haven’t already, please check out the one of my ocean-themed posts below, or all of my other previous posts here. Thanks so much for checking out this week’s edition of Diptych!
See you soon!
—Forrest
D.I.Y. Everything
In an age where information and access to learning is almost limitless (and often free), it’s a little hard to imagine a time when this sort of access was not only hard to come by, but also could be very expensive. I know for myself, Youtube and various forum sites over the years have provided me with knowledge and techniques I would have spent a lifetime gathering just a few decades ago, but being alive during the rise of the Internet Age has also exposed many issues and growing pains.
The Bargain Hunters Special
Boasting over 300 individually stocked booths, Bargain Hunters in Knoxville is one of my favorite indoor flea markets in my region. On days when there are very few people there, it can often feel a little like the backrooms with it’s aisles that lead to dead ends and claustrophobic booths. I find the vending / customer-accessible break room to have a weird energy to it. I’ve never left the store empty handed though, and that is thanks to it’s many and varied curators and it’s frequent sales.
Virtual Channel Surfing #3
As mentioned several times over the past handful of articles, I’ve got an ever-growing backlog of tapes to digitize. Thanks to some wonderful gifts over the holidays, and some really lucky scores at thrift stores and marketplace finds, that backlog has grown to surpass my current collection on Archive.
With over 140 tapes waiting for their debut here on Diptych, it’s natural to want to push them all out all at once, but that’s not what this blog is all about. For every good tape, there are several stinkers, and I do take some pride in my work of curation and presentation.