The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Quiz

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey

• The book has sold over 25 million copies and has been translated into over 40 languages.
• The book presents life-changing habits based on universal principles such as kindness and integrity.

The 7 Habits

• The first three habits are personal victory habits: being proactive, starting with the end in mind, and putting the most important things in life first.
• Habits 3-6 focus on interactions with others: working towards win-win situations, seeking to understand others, and being cooperatively creative.
• The seventh habit deals with taking care of one's body, mind, and spirit to fully implement habits 1-6.

Key Concepts

• The difference between Personality Ethics and Character Ethics.
• Paradigms in life as maps, and how to shift them to make improvements.
• How to unlearn destructive habits and master the 7 habits for a more fulfilling and productive life.

Quotes

• "The more aware we are of our basic paradigms, maps, or assumptions, and the extent to which we have been influenced by our experience, the more we can take responsibility for those paradigms..."
• "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them."
• "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

Overview of Each Habit

• Habit 1: Be Proactive (The power of choice) - accepting responsibility for one's behavior, making choices based on principles and values, and developing self-awareness, conscience, imagination, and independent will.
• Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind (Measure twice, cut once) - creating a mental vision and purpose for any project, mentally identifying and committing to principles, values, relationships, and purposes that matter most.