The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

重要なポイント

• 持続的な変化は小手先ではなく、内面の人格を磨くことから始まります
• ただ不安なことではなく、自分がコントロールできることに注力します
• まず個人のミッションを定め、緊急なことより重要な予定を優先します
• Listen to understand before you try to be understood, and look for win-win deals
• 成果を出し続けるために、身体・精神・心・魂を定期的にリフレッシュします

このbitの内容

1. 変化は内面から始まる

   Imagine two people trying to fix a struggling relationship. One learns clever conversation tricks.

2. 影響の輪の中で主体的になる

   Picture a JEE aspirant who blames the coaching centre, the syllabus and the weather for a bad test. Now picture one who asks what she can change before the next one.

3. 終わりを思い描き、予定に落とし込む

   Habit 2 asks you to begin with the end in mind. Covey suggests imagining your own funeral and hearing what family, friends and colleagues say about you.

4. まず理解し、Win-Winを目指す

   Once you are steady on your own, the next habits are about people. Habit 4 is think win-win.

5. シナジーを生み、刃を研ぐ

   Habit 6 is synergize. When two people who trust each other bring different views to a problem, they can find a third option neither had imagined.

6. 実践に移す

   This week, catch yourself once when you say I have to, and rephrase it as I choose to. Spend 20 minutes writing a rough mission statement: what you want your family, your work and your own conscience to say about you.