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THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFECTIVE PEOPLE
Inside-Out
Personality Versus Character Ethics
Personality Ethic. Success is a function of personality, of public image, of attitudes and behaviors, skills and techniques, that lubricate the processes of human interaction.Character Ethic. Success depends on things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule.
Primary Versus Secondary Greatness
Primary Greatness. Goodness of character.Secondary Greatness. Social recognition for talent.
Paradigm
A model, theory, perception, assumption, or frame of reference. In a more general sense, it is the way we see the world in terms of perceiving, understanding, interpreting.Paradigm Categories:
- Realities. The way things are
- Values. The way things should be.
The Principle-Centered Paradigm
The Character Ethic is based on the fundamental idea that there are principles that govern human effectiveness.Principles Defined
- Principles are natural laws that can't be broken.
- Principles are not esoteric, mysterious, or "religious" ideas.
- Principles are self-evident and may be validated.
- Principles are part of the human condition, part of human consciousness, and part of the human conscience.
- Principles are not practices.
- Principles are not values.
- Fairness
- Integrity/honesty
- Human dignity
- Quality/excellence
- Potential
- Growth
- Patience
- Nurturance
- Encouragement
A New Level of Thinking
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People is a
- principle-centered
- character-based
- inside-out
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