Book Summary 2–7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Key Insights
Do stuff to actively plan your daily life towards your future
What do I want people to say at my funeral? align goals to that
Invest into emotional bank account
Change
- shortcut: address skills and learn
- long way: work on character
Work on Character
- perception
- subjective view
- change fundamental principles
Sharpen the saw if you want to keep sawing
- do stuff to actively plan your daily life towards your future
Be proactive to change your future
- take control of decisions and fate
Begin with an end in mind
- don’t be efficient be effective
- what do I want people to say at my funeral? align goals to that
Visualise outcome before doing action
Put first things first
Important things — what brings us closer to long-term goal, not necessarily pressing
Win Win Mentality
Relationship — investing into emotional bank account
- promise
- listening
- win-win mentality
- find out needs of people
- remain loyal
- ask for forgiveness if you do a withdrawal
Skill of empathetic listening
- not advice
- active listening
- repeating back to the person in own words
- really understand the person next to me
- mirroring emotions
Synergise with openness and respect
- listen to each other
- invest in working environment
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