Week 7:
The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People
Main Idea:
A paradigm is the way we see and understand the world around us. It is a mental map by which we interpret the information we receive. Paradigms hold the key to our own personal interpretation of reality. Principles are guidelines for human behavior that have been proven over time to have enduring, permanent value. Our challenge is to develop paradigms for our own lives that are principle based. Supporting Ideas:
Many individuals who have achieved incredible degrees of outward success find themselves struggling with an inner need for healthy, growing relationships with other people. These are the sorts of problems quick fixes cannot solve.
*Behavior is governed by how perceptions were formed, and how the way events are viewed.
...The study concluded that no matter how much a person works on their attitude, they won’t change if they don’t change their perceptions.
Much....literature of the past 50 years has been extremely superficial - filled with social image consciousness and quick-fixes. .
...previous 150 years focused on the character ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, justice, patience and the Golden Rule. The character ethic taught there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they integrate those principles into their personal character.
....we have inadvertently become so focused on the secondary traits that we have forgotten the primary traits at the foundation. To focus on techniques alone is to miss the whole point of why the techniques are useful. In the long run, we cannot be successful if there is no actual foundation for success.
.... A paradigm is like a map. It is not the actual piece of territory but is an explanation or model of a piece of territory.
*Everyone carries with them mental maps of two types - the way things are and the way things should be. We often assume the way we see things is the way they really are. All our attitudes and behaviors grow out of those assumptions. They also affect the way we interact with other people. In other words, sincere, clear headed people can each see the same thing differently because each person is looking through the unique lens of their own experience. The more anyone becomes aware of their own paradigms and the extent to which they influence their perceptions, the more that person can take responsibility for their paradigms and test them against reality and try to perceive the larger picture for a more objective view.
....Thomas Kuhn showed almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms. Paradigm shifts, whether instantaneous or gradual, positive or negative affect the way we see the world, and therefore our attitudes and behaviors and relationships with other people. Thus, if we want to make changes in our lives, we can do so by focusing on our paradigms.
*Paradigms are inseparable from our character. The character ethic is based on the fundamental idea that there are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws that are just as unchanging as laws in the physical dimension.
...In fact, people are either moving towards survival when they live in harmony or destruction when they move away. Examples are principles such as;
....The way we see any problem is the problem. The 7 Habits are a new level of thinking - a paradigm shift based on a principle-centered, character-based inside-out approach to personal effectiveness.
*interdependence= looking after others and combining strengths.
Supporting Ideas:
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Habits...produce our effectiveness.
A habit= knowledge (the what to do), skill (how to do it) and desire (the motivation to do it). We need all three to form a habit.
Happiness= the fruit of the ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon. However, life is, by its very nature, highly interdependent. Much more can be achieved through interdependence.
....You can’t be effectively interdependent until you are truly independent.
Main Idea:
A paradigm is the way we see and understand the world around us. It is a mental map by which we interpret the information we receive. Paradigms hold the key to our own personal interpretation of reality. Principles are guidelines for human behavior that have been proven over time to have enduring, permanent value. Our challenge is to develop paradigms for our own lives that are principle based. Supporting Ideas:
Many individuals who have achieved incredible degrees of outward success find themselves struggling with an inner need for healthy, growing relationships with other people. These are the sorts of problems quick fixes cannot solve.
*Behavior is governed by how perceptions were formed, and how the way events are viewed.
...The study concluded that no matter how much a person works on their attitude, they won’t change if they don’t change their perceptions.
Much....literature of the past 50 years has been extremely superficial - filled with social image consciousness and quick-fixes. .
...previous 150 years focused on the character ethic as the foundation of success - things like integrity, humility, fidelity, justice, patience and the Golden Rule. The character ethic taught there are basic principles of effective living, and that people can only experience true success and enduring happiness as they integrate those principles into their personal character.
....we have inadvertently become so focused on the secondary traits that we have forgotten the primary traits at the foundation. To focus on techniques alone is to miss the whole point of why the techniques are useful. In the long run, we cannot be successful if there is no actual foundation for success.
.... A paradigm is like a map. It is not the actual piece of territory but is an explanation or model of a piece of territory.
*Everyone carries with them mental maps of two types - the way things are and the way things should be. We often assume the way we see things is the way they really are. All our attitudes and behaviors grow out of those assumptions. They also affect the way we interact with other people. In other words, sincere, clear headed people can each see the same thing differently because each person is looking through the unique lens of their own experience. The more anyone becomes aware of their own paradigms and the extent to which they influence their perceptions, the more that person can take responsibility for their paradigms and test them against reality and try to perceive the larger picture for a more objective view.
....Thomas Kuhn showed almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms. Paradigm shifts, whether instantaneous or gradual, positive or negative affect the way we see the world, and therefore our attitudes and behaviors and relationships with other people. Thus, if we want to make changes in our lives, we can do so by focusing on our paradigms.
*Paradigms are inseparable from our character. The character ethic is based on the fundamental idea that there are principles that govern human effectiveness - natural laws that are just as unchanging as laws in the physical dimension.
...In fact, people are either moving towards survival when they live in harmony or destruction when they move away. Examples are principles such as;
- Fairness
- Integrity
- Honesty
- Human dignity
- Service
- Quality or excellence
- Human potential
....The way we see any problem is the problem. The 7 Habits are a new level of thinking - a paradigm shift based on a principle-centered, character-based inside-out approach to personal effectiveness.
*interdependence= looking after others and combining strengths.
Supporting Ideas:
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Habits...produce our effectiveness.
A habit= knowledge (the what to do), skill (how to do it) and desire (the motivation to do it). We need all three to form a habit.
Happiness= the fruit of the ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.
True independence of character empowers us to act rather than be acted upon. However, life is, by its very nature, highly interdependent. Much more can be achieved through interdependence.
....You can’t be effectively interdependent until you are truly independent.
- Habits 1,2 and 3 deal with self-mastery or private victories and lay the foundation for other habits.
- Habits 4,5 and 6 deal with the public victories.
- Habit 7 is the habit of renewal of the four basic dimensions of a meaningful life.
Habit 1: Be Proactive.
Every other creature simply reacts. Man can
control his thoughts. Being proactive means to actively choose what our
response will be in any situation rather than to react blindly.
...Until we take into account how we see ourselves and others, we
limit our ability to relate to others.
Between...choose a response. This is due to the
presence of;
- Self-awareness - the ability to control thoughts.
- Imagination - the ability to mentally create a new reality.
- Conscience - an inner awareness of right and wrong.
- Independent will - the ability to act on thoughts.
proactivity means to control a situation from
the inside out. Or in other words, to affect positive change, stop
focusing on the immediate circumstances and instead consider
your response to the conditions that exist. Do that and you have
removed the power of anything external to affect you.
It is in the ordinary events of every day that we develop our
proactive skills....Our response to the little irritations in life will also
affect responses to disasters.
Mastery
>Every time you spend money you make a statement about what you value..
>The self-taught person is on a chancy path.
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