--- title: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey created_date: 2024-11-28 updated_date: 2024-11-28 aliases: tags: - book - self-help type: book book_name: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People author: Stephen Covey status: finished --- # The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey - **šŸ·ļøTags** : #11-2024 #book --- ## Summary > [!summary] Summary > 3 Sentences only! > - What are the main ideas? > - If I implemented one idea from this book right now, which one would it be? > - How would I describe the book to someone else? --- ## Ideas and Thoughts > [!info]+ Inspiring Questions > - Did you think about other concepts from other books? > - Do the concepts fit to your past, to your memories? > - Can you relive them and reflect them from a different angle? --- ## Clippings > [!info] Import Clippings from Kindle > Annotate Clippings with thoughts and cross references --- ## Notes ### Paradigms and Principles Paradigms: what are my maps, my lenses, my ways to see, perceive and interpret the world, the relationships? The better I know them the more I can abstract, experiment, listen to others and thereby getting a larger picture and far more objective view. Most breakthroughs in science are usually a break with traditional methods and traditional ways of thinking. So called Paradigm Shifts. Character Ethics vs Personality Ethics: a paradigm shift which is negative: character ethics is based on principles deeply rooted, whereas personality ethics is based on attitude and behavior. Story of the man with the kids in the subway whose mother just died. Small adjustment ā€”> you suddenly feel compassion In order to *see* differently, sometimes you need to *be* differently. Principles: fairness, integrity, honesty, human dignity, service, quality, excellence, potential, growth, patience, nurturance, encouragement. Principles are not practices, which are specific actions or activities and thus change with different circumstances. Principles are deeply rooted and materialize in terms of habits. They are not Values - values are the maps, trying to describe the underlying territory, which are the principles. ### Private Victory #### Be Proactive Conditioning: it would be easy to say that *genetic, psychic (upbringing) and environmental (current environment ) determinism* shapes our behaviors. Itā€˜s the stimulus / response theory which says weā€˜re conditioned to respond in a certain way to different stimuli. This lets us create a framework: > [!NOTE] Between Stimulus and Response, Man has freedom to choose > Victor Frankl, being tortured in the Naziā€™s concentration camps realized that the last human freedom is to choose how different stimuli are going to affect you. Ergo you can choose your response. Projecting yourself to be where you want to be helps with choosing the right response today for a future goal. Self-awareness, imagination, conscience (deep inner awareness of what is right and wrong), independent will, are traits that help shape this ability to create a gap in between stimulus and response. Being proactive means that as a human being, we are responsible for our own life. Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions. Being proactive requires a paradigm shift: you need to abstract the stimulus and find out how it relates to your life and situation. Then you are free to chose the response. --- ## Todos - [ ] what are paradigm shifts I have experienced? - [ ] What is my contribution to this world? How do I serve? ## My Stories [[Stefan Fritsche|Dad]] hat auch ein paradigm shift gemscht, als er akzeptiert hat das der Lohnunterschied wegen der Einstufung nicht angepasst wird und er aber sich selber von einer anderen Seite gesehen hat mit Bezug auf Familie, Haus und generelles Wohlsein.