Critical Commentary of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Critical Commentary of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Critical Commentary of 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Critical Commentary on 7
Habits of Highly Effective
People
Assignment (Entrepreneurship)
Prepared By Dharik Patel (S0456101)
S0456101
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If these three things combined together then we can achieve the goal
successfully. So habits are defined as the Intersection of knowledge, skill and
desire.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Aristotle
I totally agree with the definition of habits. If we do not have any
knowledge about the particular thing or field then we cant go further
towards the goal of that field. Even having knowledge of that thing, we cant
achieve to the destination unless we figure out about the procedure and
dedication towards it.
The described 7 Habits in this book are a remarkable set of beneficial
and aspirational standards for anyone who seeks to live a purposeful and
qualitative life, and are applicable in business world - and life beyond
business and work - become more adapted to humanist concepts.
Effective habits are not inbuilt in humans nature. But we have to
develop those habits in our routine life to enjoy successful and stress less
life. Maturity comes in humans nature by getting older in age and by real-life
experiences. There is a sequence of maturity starts from totally dependence
to independence to interdependence.
When I was in 12th science grade, it was final board exam time and I
was not enough confident about my exam preparation because I did
not prepare well. And I failed that exam. So I desired that I would be
passed with distinction in the exam without making strong effort. But
that is not enough to get your goal. You should be capable to push
yourself in it completely and then you can enjoy the fruit of desire.
There are 7 habits described for effective life, help us to develop our
personality in a progressive manner. First three habits teach us about the
private victory where we learn to move from maturity level dependence to
independence by taking responsibility for our own life.
Habit 1: To Be Proactive
Mature people always know the reason behind everything happened
with them. They never blame external elements for the reason. This is the
bitter truth of our life. We have to accept that we are the responsible for
what happened in our life and try to resolve or deal with it rather than
blaming other things.
Reactive people always find reasons to escape from the situation they
have created. They always feel that they are powerless, affected by their
physical environment and pretend like they are helpless. Happiness,
unhappiness is a proactive choice. To apply any new innovative formula
someone has to be initiative. Taking the initiative does not mean to be
pushy,
obnoxious
or
aggressive
but
it
means
that
determine
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So it starts from the end. Like in our funeral what others will talk about
me? What do I want them to say? This kind of questions will produce
the mission and goals of our life.
I am attaching the one image which describes the moral of this habit.
From this image we can assume the importance of thinking the end
before we start to do anything.
This image tells us that we have to think at least once about the ending
result before we start to do that.
There are four 4 quadrants in which our tasks basically fall into:
Habit 6: Synergize
To work effectively within a team with the agreement of others
suggestions called synergize. Because of this reason this book has
considered synergize as the highest activity of life.
Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and test of our
civilization Mahatma Gandhi
Habit 6 can also be used to create substitute solutions when there are
apparently conflicting differences in opinions or stands.
In this habit Stephen focused on the personal care. In the race of success
and quality life people are being careless about their health. They dont care
about their nutrition and get medical problems as well as mental problems.
Because of this kind of problem they couldnt maintain themselves in the
business and have to gain loss in that. I always prefer to do Yoga that never
takes longer than 20 minutes but that stays me away from mental and
physical depression so I can focus on my studies and other works. Everyone
would take one hour to do something mentally stimulating, like reading a
book or doing a puzzle, then everyone would spend one hour doing
something physically revitalizing, like working in the garden or running or
something.
Conclusion:
In a conclusion I believe that the book 7 Habits of Highly Effective People is
one of the most powerful books in 21st century but only if you are within book
target market but outside of it then you might not get something from it.
Lack of education and mental retardation might be the reason for your failure
to understand this book. Dr. Stephen has described the conceptual base for
effective and purposeful life. We got the over view about how 7 habits can
improve the quality of our life.