The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People

Request a quote Buy now Add to cart Favorite. Free delivery in Phnom Penh. Print Length 10 pages. Publisher The Rumpus March 30, I love the unique ideas from Altucher, some of the mediocre qualities may at first be considered bad. But he quickly makes you realize the beneficial aspects of those qualities, sometimes in life we need to take a breath of air and analyze our movements. We get sucked into societies lies. The only way to freedom is by opening your eyes. This book helps you make it happen. Is a very short book, better buy other books from him.

I should have read the reviews. I like James writing after readin Choose Yourself, I was looking for more. Picked this book and for the entire book I was telling myself that this is the same stuff in the last book. Okay, maybe next chapter will be some new stuff. I feel a little cheated. Suggest reading Choose Yourself for a nice read. More of a short article.

When I bought this I thought it would be a long book like others from James. The book is good but you can find this information on his blog or on other of his books: I bought Choose Yourself the same day and got a little bit disappointed when I found that this book was included in the newest book, so better save your money and buy Choose Yourself. I love Altucher's writing.

Content was funny and interesting, but I was expecting a longer work. You can do much better for a paid ebook. Another thought on management. We have a circle of concern and a circle of influence. Use your energy and time to capitalize on the things you can actually change and control directly or even indirectly.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People by James Altucher

You can control your behavior, you have indirect influence on the behavior of other people, but you cannot change the past or foresee the future or the stock market. Before you start your journey to become the best version of yourself, you should actually have an idea of who you want to become.

Covey wants you to imagine your own funeral. What is it you would like your family and friends to say about you?

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It will be about your character traits, your passion, your vision and your personal life mission. Beginning with the end in mind helps you to understand what is important to you. You will come up with certain values and principles. Once you figured those out, you must stick to them. These values and principles must be the center of your life. They must be more important than circumstances, emotions or even people. They will help you in those moments when you face adversity and even animosity and they will be like a lighthouse in a cloudy night.

We all only have 24 hours per day. Nobody gets more and yet some people use those 24 hours better than others. So the question remains: If we want to make the most of those 24 hours, what things should we focus on and what things should we eliminate? Covey gives a pretty clear answer. Imagine a coordinate system. The x-axis ranges from not urgent to urgent and the y-axis ranges from important to unimportant.

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Observe yourself for a couple of days and rate everything you do according to the coordinate system. Sometimes you will have to do unimportant but urgent things but ideally, you can find a way to delegate those tasks. There is no question, however, that you will have to tackle the important and urgent topics in your life.

This leaves us with one category.

The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Mediocre People

This is where growth happens! Obviously, you cannot focus all your energy on those actions, but make sure you spend enough time in this part of the coordination system. These activities are about your long time goals. Start today and you will have another kind of life in a couple of years if you commit to this habit. As we now enter the stage of our development where we want to go from independent to interdependent, we will concentrate on our behavior towards other people. How do we deal with business partners?

How do we treat strangers? Even if you hold the longer end of the stick you will have to make it win-win! Covey elaborates on the benefit of Habit 4 when it comes to long-time goals and names it as one of the key aspects of interpersonal leadership. Seek first to understand, than to be understood. Have you ever been in a heated discussion and the other person was talking, explaining their point of view?

Whenever I would find myself in such a situation back in the days, I would plan my next statement while the other person was trying to get his or her point across. And this is were I went wrong for many years. Nowadays I learnt my lesson. Training your listening skills will be essential in order to have positive relationships to others. We all want to be heard. Giving other people the chance to explain their ideas does not only give you the possibility to learn a lot, but you will often find a solution suitable for both people remember: And this is not only true for emotional topics.

So how do they know what bothers the costumers? Instead of trying to get the costumer to understand why the product is so great, the salesman would take the perspective of the costumers and offer them an answer to their problems by first understanding the issue. This habit is all about optimizing your interactions with other people.

Covey explains the power of authenticity and courage. You want to create a space of creativity in order to achieve the best possible results. It sometimes is about finding the alternative to all the ideas you and your partner would have had on their own. And it is about understanding the value of having diversity within your group. The last habit is all about practicing and improving your skills.

In order to play the long game, you will have to stay fit and sharp in different areas of your life.

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Covey focused on the mental, physical, social and spiritual aspects. The mental part includes developing knowledge and continual education, while the physical aspect covers you workout, your eating habits and your rest. You can improve your social skills by applying the habits in your life on a daily basis and the spiritual part can be about your meditation practice, reading books about the topic or just taking a walk in nature. If you really are into self-improvement, you will be in it for the rest of your life.

This is hopefully a long time. In order to always stay on top of your game, you have to stay sharp in all of the above mentioned areas. Covey explains how private success precedes public success. We all should work on ourselves first before we even think about achieving external goals. Therefore we have to focus on our general behavior and, yes, our habits. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence is nothing but a habit.

Another point Covey mentions is how integrity is the foundation of our self-esteem. This brings us back to Habit 2. Get clarity about your values and principles, stick to them even in difficult situations and self-esteem will be the reward. I personally began with Habits and 7. Nowadays, however, due to my job situation, Habits have become more and more relevant. I already mentioned that people often see Habit 3 as the most important one.