Seven Habits Study Guide

[vldx]

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Seven_Habits_Study_Guide/Quick_overview_of_the_seven_habits

[kabouseng]

Is there something similar for "How to make friends and influence people"?

[mfP314 → kabouseng]

http://www.westegg.com/unmaintained/carnegie/win-friends.htm...

http://sameffect.com/how-to-win-friends-and-influence-people...

[kabouseng → mfP314]

Thanks. I prefer the first one. The second one I did manage to google, along with some others, but they are too verbose.

[AndrewKemendo → mfP314]

Thanks. The second link is thorough yet also very concise.

[mfrankel]

We did a 3 minute intro video on this. Take a look. http://www.brevedy.com/7-habits-3-minutes-video/

Covey's stuff is pretty solid and researched based. You really have to read the book. It's worth it.

[steverb]

Actually, the study guide is pretty much the right length for the book.

They are all useful points, but the book itself beats the horse until it is very thoroughly dead.

[normloman]

No shit? Effective people are proactive? And they seek win-win scenarios?

Tell me something I don't know.

[cliveowen]

Same old self-help bullshit.

[ankitoberoi]

Personally, I think HN is not the perfect place for self-help.

Also, I don't believe that any specific habits can you make you successful.

A lot of people became successful purely by probability.

[theorique → ankitoberoi]

Also, I don't believe that any specific habits can you make you successful.

Person "A": spends 105% of his income

Person "B": spends 85% of his income

Which habit do you think will lead to greater success?

[ankitoberoi → theorique]

Spending more than what you earn is not a habit, it's a disorder.

What I'm trying to say is that it does not work like that. If I were to follow all that is said in such book/articles, will I automatically become rich or successful?

[theorique → ankitoberoi]

Spending more than what you earn, as a repeated pattern of behavior, is definitely a habit. Most people would agree that it's a bad one.

If you're waiting for some advice or recipe to make you "automatically" rich or successful, you'll be waiting a long time. Nobody can guarantee that.

We can probably agree that there is a spectrum of habits that range from "good" to "bad". Practicing good habits doesn't create automatic success, just like practicing bad habits doesn't make success impossible, but there are statistical trends.

[islon]

Reads like a self-help book...