Six months in such a community, not even once he follows their lifestyle. They introduce him to the community where people use bad words, where prostitution is everywhere, and where people are not respecting or trusting other people. They are trying to destroy the Dauphine’s morality so that he will not become the next King of France. After King Louis is imprisoned, the Dauphine is taken to a faraway community. My favorite from Covey’s stories about paradigm is the story of a Dauphine of France. In this live, what you see is what you get (WYSIWYG), so in order to get the good things we must make sure that we see the good things. Having the wrong paradigm is just not good because it will be an obstacle in our lives. The point from this analogy is, we are like those blind people, trying to understand something big and we only see it from one side but we are so sure that it is just as what we see. They all will be very sure of their perception about the elephant, and they will argue. Another will say that an elephant is like a rope, but he is actually only touching the elephant’s tail. He actually is only touching the elephant’s trunk. One will say that an elephant is like a giant snake. We bring them an elephant and we ask them to touch and describe the elephant. As an analogy, let us say that there is a group of blind people who never encounter any elephants before. No one has the best and complete perception. Ferdinand was sure about his perception, but it turned out that he was wrong. He once stated that airplanes are interesting toys, but have no value in the military. One of them is a statement from Ferdinand Foch, a French Military Strategic Expert who became a World War I Commander. In the book, Sean Covey mentioned some statements of some experts in the past that sound silly now. We will never know how poor our current vision is, until we get a new and better pair of glasses. It is like a pair of glasses that will determine whether we will see things clearly or not. In creating good habits, we should have good paradigm in our lives. It is not easy to do that, but when we are able to deal with our own habits, then we are ready to deal with other people’s habits. Yes, we are able to create, change and eliminate our habits. Everyone has good as well as bad habits, so everyone should deal with their bad habits and create the good habits. Our habits, good or bad will shape our characters. What do habits have to do with effectiveness? Well, our habits will decide whether or not we will be successful, and whether or not we will be happy.Īn English poet once said that at first we will determine our habits, and the next our habits will determine who we are. Moreover, the readers will find out what do they value the most in their lives. If practiced, the 7 habits Stephen and Sean Covey referred in their books will make the readers able to control their lives, to do more in fewer time, improve relationships with other people, improve self confidence, rehab from addiction, be happy, find the balances between the time for school, work, hang out, and many other activities. Sean Covey himself writes other several self helping books as well. Sean Covey’s father, Stephen Covey, is well-known for authoring his international bestseller book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, The 8th Habit: from Effectiveness to Greatness, and many other popular self helping books. It was in the year 2001 the Indonesian version of the book first published in Indonesia. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is a book authored by Sean Covey.
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