Stephen R. Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Persona…

Stephen R. Covey – The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Persona…

We all want to succeed. And one path to success is identifying the habits that can help us on our journey.

I recommend starting that path by reading Stephen Covey’s best-selling book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Don’t have time to read all 432 pages?

I get it — most of us don’t. That’s why we summarized the entire book for you below.

What habits do highly effective people have?

The book opens with an explanation of how many individuals who have achieved a high degree of outward success still find themselves struggling with an inner need for developing personal effectiveness and growing healthy relationships with other people.

Covey believes the way we see the world is entirely based on our own perceptions. In order to change a given situation, we must change ourselves, and in order to change ourselves, we must be able to change our perceptions.

In studying over 200 years of literature on the concept of “success,” Covey identified a very important change in the way that humans have defined success over time.

In earlier times, the foundation of success rested upon character ethic (things like integrity, humility, fidelity, temperance, courage, justice, patience, industry, simplicity, modesty, and the Golden Rule). But starting around the 1920s, the way people viewed success shifted to what Covey calls “personality ethic” (where success is a function of personality, public image, attitudes, and behaviors).