The seven habits of highly effective people

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Title: Seven Habits of Effective People

Author: Stephen Cavi

Translator: Leila Akbari Teacher

Publisher: Rivas

Subject: Psychology, success, motivation

Age category: Adult

Cover: Paperback

Number of pages: 462

Language: Farsi

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 The seven habits of highly effective people: restoring the character ethic are the work of Stephen Kavi, who speaks for himself about this book

There are universal laws for happiness that are common throughout history and in all societies. I have not discovered these laws, I have only identified them. Victory anywhere depends on compliance with the laws there. “The rules are fixed, but how they are applied to each person is different and depends on our initiatives and talents.”

Of course, after reading this book, you are not going to be suddenly happy, but you may or may not be on this path with the choices you make; And it’s just up to you.

“There are laws for human effectiveness, that is, there are laws in human nature that are as real, unchangeable, and definite as the law of gravity.”
“If there is no fixed and immutable nucleus within man, man can not cope with change. “The key to change a person is to know who he is, what he wants and what he is worth.”

“Humans usually have two-dimensional thinking, such as strong or weak, intense competition or ordinary competition, winning or losing. But this kind of thinking is completely wrong. In fact, in this type of thinking, only human power and position are considered, not real principles. “But the win-win thinking is based on the idea that success is possible for everyone and that no one’s success means another’s failure.”

Book Summary Seven Habits of Effective People
Man is effective when he is clear about his principles, values ​​and dreams. Human change is real when it becomes a habit.

The book Seven Habits of Effective People in Improving Personality is a phenomenon. About one million copies of this book have been sold every year since its publication. This book has been translated into 32 languages ​​and is the basis of the performance of very famous institutions.

It took 60 years for Dale Carnegie’s book The Rite of Friendship and How to Influence Others to make such an impact. What made this book one of the best books on human life?

Success from the inside out in the book Seven Habits of Effective People
The first factor in the success of this book was the timing of its publication. Steven Covey published the book in the 1990s. At this time, the desire to “rule the world” was not enough for human beings who were engaged in fierce and breathtaking competition, and man was ready to receive new guidance to achieve his dreams in life. Steven Covey’s message that “man must rebuild his personality system” took the form of an intellectual revolution.

Steven Cavi studied the works of success written over the past 200 years in order to write his doctoral dissertation. For this reason, he was able to distinguish between the two issues of personal principles (quick solutions and human relations techniques that made up most of the works of writers in the twentieth century) and personality principles that are based on the immutable principles of human personality.

Steven Covey believed that if human success did not come from within him, he would not be able to achieve any success in the outside world. In other words, “private success” must take shape before “public success.”

A plan for personal life
The second reason for the success of the book Seven Habits of Effective People is that it has an interesting and exciting text; Both as a guide to self-help and as a guide to leadership and management. This dual impact led to the book’s tremendous success and sales. Of course, a reader who reads this book just for the sake of success may be tired of the specialized managerial terms, tables, and business documents contained in the book. But in any case, a book about patterns of change also requires the presentation of business thought patterns.

This means that the annoying parts of the book cost the reader very little to benefit from a great life-changing guide that Steven Covey used to write from personal and family experiences. In many ways, we may consider Steven Covey to be the successor and successor to Dale Carnegie. But the Seven Habits of Influential People are more regular and complete than any other modern book on the subject.

Habits: The basis of change
The book’s emphasis on habits as the basis for change is another reason for its success. Steven Covey realized that true human superiority is the result of the gradual growth of his personality over time. That is, our daily mental and behavioral habits underlie our superiority.

In Seven Habits of Effective People, Steven Covey promises you that there will be a change in your life, but it does not happen all at once, but as a result of thousands of small changes in your life. The English novelist Charles Reed puts it this way:

“Use a new thought to reap a new behavior, a new behavior to reap a new habit, a new habit to reap a new character, a new character to reap a new destiny.”

Effectiveness versus efficiency
Finally, the use of the word “effective” in the title of the book is another reason for its success and bestseller. For decades before the book was published in Western culture, management theories were based on “efficiency.”

The issue of time management was introduced as a result of machine life, even in the realm of personal life, and everyone thought that the cause of any problem in human life was the inefficiency of the way resources were distributed. But Steven Covey came up with a new perspective.

His message in the book Seven Habits of Influential People is: “Determine the most important issue in your life, then see if your life is built on it.” Do not worry about efficiency. “If what you are doing is meaningless or unrelated to the most important issue in your life, being useful in such work is of no use.”

In Seven Habits of Effective People, being effective is more important than achievement. If what you are doing is not in line with the lofty goals of your life, or if you are not serving others by doing it, the achievement of doing so is futile. Steven Covey believes that the personality system presented in twentieth-century self-help books helped humans build only a prosperous society whose ultimate destination is unknown.

Habit of responsibility
These seven habits are based on the human desire to review the world and the courage to take life seriously. This book was shocking because it showed humans for the first time what the true meaning of responsibility is.

From mining point of view, blaming the economy, the employer or the family for the problems we have in life is useless. To be successful and powerful, one must take responsibility for everything that belongs to him. Only if we can change ourselves can we increase our effectiveness. Here we briefly introduce these seven habits.

Seven Habits of Effective People
1. Be active, not passive. Man always has the right to choose his reaction to various stimuli and events. With this authority, there is also the awareness that we do not have to live according to the wishes of the family or the conditions that society imposes on us. Instead, we should take responsibility for our own lives. In this case, we are no longer a reaction machine, but an active being.

2. Imagine the end of the work in your mind. What would you like people to say about you at your funeral? By thinking about this or writing a mission letter for your life, you first realize the ultimate goal of your life and then strive to achieve it. Man has an internal guidance system that helps him make life choices. So it can be argued that everything we do today is directly related to the image we have of the end of our lives.

3. Do important things first. This habit puts the number two habit into practice. Once you have the image of your ultimate goal in mind, you can plan your daily routine based on it so that you are both highly efficient and enjoy your work. Because in this situation, everything you do and whoever you are in contact with is in the direction of your sublime goal.
4. Have a win-win thinking. One person’s success does not mean another’s failure. With a win-win thinking, we never compromise our principles. Rather, the result of this way of thinking is to have better social relations and to reach the point that we never impose our words on anyone and we do not follow the words of others, but always choose a better way. We gain this ability when we can see the world through the eyes of others.

5. First you understand others, then others will understand you. If you do not empathize with others, you can never influence them. If you do not deposit your relationship with others in an emotional bank account, others will not trust you. Listening to others has a positive effect on them psychologically and allows you to communicate more closely with them.

6. Make a synergy. Synergy arises from the overlap of all other habits, resulting in great results that are unpredictable.

7. Sharpen your saw. We all need to be able to balance the physical, spiritual, mental and social aspects of our lives. Sharpening the saw to increase efficiency is possible as a result of continuous reconstruction in these areas.

The final point and the main message of the book ” The seven habits of highly effective people: restoring the character ethic”
The heroes of each author represent the line of thought of that author. Benjamin Franklin has been cited as a prime example of someone who has been able to apply the principles of personality in practice. Steven Covey uses the story of Victor Frankel, a survivor of the concentration camps (see description in The Man in Search of Meaning) to show responsibility, and Henry David Taro (see description in Walden’s book) to show freedom of thought. he does.

Some people say that the seven habits that Steven Covey mentioned are in fact information that all people have. Each of these seven principles alone may seem so, but if we examine these seven habits in a focused way and in the same order and sequence and belief in the centrality of principles in life, they will have the same synergy that Steven Covey has. Defines.
The common denominator of the topic of self-help is that it is said that an educational seminar or a book in this field may give a person a lot of motivation, but its effect will disappear after a while. In response to these problems, we must say that the book Seven Habits of Effective People, by using habits as the basis of change in human beings, moves the reader to determination and helps him to change his habits every day. This book provides the necessary tools for
Makes small changes to the reader so that he can finally reach a fundamental change.

About Steven Covey, author of The Seven Habits of Effective People
Steven Covey was born in 1932. He received a master’s degree in business administration from Harvard University and worked as a professor of organizational behavior and business management at Brigham Young University in Utah.

He founded the Mining Leadership Center in 1984, which merged with the Franklin Quest 13 years later to form the Franklin Mining Institute. The company, which is currently valued at $ 500 million, provides management and efficiency training services. Every year, more than 750,000 people use these educational services.

In addition, the company has 150 retail stores. Steven Covey’s partner is Hyrum Smith, who is himself one of the most successful self-help book writers. One of his works is The 10 natural laws of successful time and life management. Other Steven Covey books include Principle-centered leadership, First Things First, Seven Habits of Successful Families, and Living with Seven Habits. Steven Covey’s latest book is called Leadership.
Steven Covey has several honorary doctorates, and Time magazine has named him one of the 25 most important and influential people in the United States. Kavi currently lives with his wife Sandra in Peru, Utah. They have 9 children and 34 grandchildren.

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