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Summary: The best thing for any teenager
Review: I bought this book four days ago, and it has already changed my life. Everything used to stress me out, but this not only helps you relaxe, but teaches you to understand other people. I deffenitly reccomend it!
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Summary: A must read for all teenagers AND their parents!
Review: I bought the book for my 14 year old son. I started reading it to my freshman leadership class and then shared the book with my daughters, age 16 and 18. Everyone agreed that the book is positively fun and inspirational!! I liked reading the younger Covey's book more than his dad's! Nothing but good can come from buying this book and sharing it with a friend. Or two. Or three. Or more!
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Summary: expensive toilet paper
Review: I hate this book! I truly can't see why this book is so popular.
Heres why i hate it: First off I can't stand covey's writing style. Its just so unsophisticated, so annoying, and very dry.
Second the messages that covey presents are blatant. He says that we should perform random acts of kindness (Really? i don't think my grandmother ever told me to do that) he also says that we should not let our fears make our decisions (wow!!!! what a great motivator). so if you already wiped your ass today you haven't any use for this book!
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Summary: An effective book for effective people
Review: I bought this book last year.What attracted me was not just the content,but the fun and interesting English language teenagers will find reading enjoyable (Note: it's not the type of super English with bombastic words and terms that'll probably send you poring through the dictionary).There are also interesting and cute little quotations that get you start laughing and giggling.But what is really great about this book is that it is hardly a book.It's so well-written,it's like a essential manual for all teenagers to possess! There are true-account experiences as well as well as well as accounts of scenarios which you may find familiar...like struggling to do well in an exam,coping with relationships problems and stuff. Frankly speaking,Sean Covey did make a point.I was quick to point out that i'm a procastinator (something i learnt over here),and is now able to control my emotions and get the better of myself.Though this book is like the one of the many thousands "self-improvement" source i've read,i think it is one over at my top ten list.Pointers,comics strips,useful hotlines,true accounts...and a really cool author,what more can you expect? Need help? This is the book for you!
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Summary: Great Book For Adults Too--Forget His Father's Book
Review: What Sean has done here hopefully has taught his father a lesson or two about simplicity. I don't think "how to" books have to be so complicated and Sean Covey proves it with this wonderful book. It has the exact same message as Stephen Covey's book but is a lot more fun and relaxing to read. I recommend that all adults buy it instead of Stephen Covey's book, "7 Habits of Highly Effective People". Stephen Covey's wordy,proud and know it all writing style really got on my nerves. Sean's book on the other hand is humble, straight forward, simple, easy and fast to read. You get the point without having to read through a bunch of mental masturbation. I bought it for my teenage daughter and then ended up reading the whole book and buying another copy for another teenager. They both really liked it. My husband is a crisis counselor who works with teens. He has been using the ideas in Sean Covey's book for his "Rites of Passage" work with teens and has really gotten some great insights and practical tools for his workshops. I wish there were more books like this on the market. If your teen is resistent to reading the book then read it yourself. You'll find that it will still be helpful when guiding them or talking to them about the immense stress and issues facing them in today's highly chaotic society.
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Summary: Very upbeat, funny, non-invasive
Review: I'm not a teenager anymore, but I still enjoyed reading Sean Covey's book. A person might criticize Sean for riding on his father's coattails (Stephen R. Covey of the Seven Habits collection of books and other materials). However, Stephen himself has said that he is not responsible for creating the ideas involved with the seven habits, and I doubt that anyone would criticize Sean for much of anything after reading 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens.'
I really liked this book, to state the obvious. It can serve to excite interest in social science in younger readers, or at least make them consider things about themselves they have not thought much about. What are your dominant intelligences? Are you a grape, an orange, a banana, or a melon (different categories of personalities)? The book is definitely a tool that promotes self-discovery.
Sean explains the seven habits with anecdotes from his personal life and situations that would be familiar to anyone. Overall it's a very uplifting, insightful book that presents a wonderful learning opportunity to readers of any age. The book doesn't have to be read cover to cover, even people who don't like to read can browse through it or read just one section and walk away with food for thought. And definitely ideas that can be applied to their everyday lives. econ
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Summary: Read it if You Need it
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I read this book in tenth grade as a mandatory part of a success-related class in high school. What I found was a book that was easy to read, slightly beneficial, but containing a hypocritical chapter that ruined the whole meaning for me.
Yes, Sean DOES state many skills that people should develop in order to be happy and successful in their lives. Yes, he did put some of them into practise, and uses fairly interesting, real-life stories to stress the importance or relevance of the skills. However, I found a particular personal anecdote he mentioned in here to be contradictory with the very purpose of the book. Sean himself was a low-grade-achieving, drop-out student. He was given a decent job because he happened to know someone in a high position at a famous, profitable company (I'm not giving details, in case someone doesn't want to be given too much info). Basically, he lucked out. If his achieval of the job had been through determination and effort instead of dumb-luck and good connections, maybe I would've taken the story more seriously.
If you feel this book will give you the motivation you need, by all means pick it up. It's a quick, easy read with good morals. If you're already happy with who you are, and stress yourself out enough about "being successful," you probably don't need it.
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Summary: Slowly, but surely.
Review: I got this book when I was like in 7th grade and read it, but didn't understand it. In eigth grade I read it again, and again once more. I started understanding what the book was saying, and I really LOVED how Sean wrote the book. He used real life experperiences from when he was a teen, as well as other people. This was towards the end of my eigth grade year. By the time I started High school, I stopped procrastinating and had much better grades. Nor would I "forget" my homework. Then I made a friend who was in the IB program as well as I, but procrastinated really bad. I knew exactly what to prescribe. When I referred to the book, I was amazed at how I practiced everything without even thinking of it. I found that I could manage my time wisely: hold a B+ average, wrestle, and still have time for myself. I hope that the book will have the same effect on him, as well as everyone else.
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Summary: How the book effected me
Review: When I was growing up I had older sisters, and one of my sisters hung out with the wrong croud ,and started to do drugs. One day she brought me to one of her friends houses and she convinced me to try smoking pot I knew it was wrong but i did casue I didnt want ot feel out of place being the yungest one and all. I was 13 at the time and her and her friends were 15-19. So when i tried it I thought it was really cool I started smoking it before school and one day I got cought. It wasnt good thats when I knew I needed to stop so i went to a counciler and I got help. It took me about 2 1/2 months to completly STOP, but I did it. and now today i am drug free and will never tough drugs agian in my life.
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Summary: 3 habits... enough for me
Review: I don't see any problem with this book. It's practical, it's fun, it's attractive. Something important: it teaches you how to organize time and work in a functional way, without complaining or crying your miseries out. There's stuff on it you can discard since you maybe already know them. There are things you can take in account since those are points that were missed in your life's course, and that could be the failure. This book won't tell you new particular practices to implement if you already have a perfect life -though, neither it's a religious codex. That don't mean it's a bad book. Sure, it will be useful or not depending on your problems.
I don't like the most of the self help books. The essential thing of this book radicates in the moto: "I'm the strenght". Not God, nor your soul, but YOU. And if you don't take care of your own bussiness, you're going to be expelled of the darwinian system and you're going to work in a fast food restaurant for the rest of your days. Today's society have no ways of teaching the kids the real relationship existing between richness, wealth and labor force, in traditional homes. Anomic societies don't let the fathers to teach their childrens those work principles that they must apply in their future own works, mainly because: 1) they don't have the time required, 2) the work heritage has been abolished, so parent and kinds works won't be the same ones, and hence, the rules will be differents, 3) the academy is a must-do, and a pretty competitive way of living, which impels you to reach some specific official achievements that can't be avoided in your early life, at least if you want to be "someone" in the social scale imposed by the capitalist system, 4) the TV took the task, sometimes with not very good results. This book can help you manage some of your life's topics. Not all, of course. What are you expecting for? Nirvana? Die then. There's no perfect thing, nor a perfect book, nor a perfect life. After all, God is dead. For me, it was helpful for scheduling tasks and labours. Something just trivial like that, but a vital matter that must be notified to the reader along with a lot of another "by the way" advices; some of them are worthless, according to the person's situation. You can throw them away. The value of this book is SYMBOLIC, tied to interpretations and needs of each one.
Sometimes, we forget important things. That's no bad. Bad is not even to know them. Maybe you don't know them, maybe you forgot them, and this book will have a good entropy of advices, from the which some could be appropiate for you. That is: good practical advices, the same for everybody (for they are TRUE since they're pragmatical useful), not practical philosophies (christianism, budaism, hinduism, millenarism, etc.), different for every reader according to his personal pathology (only ONE can be true). The title could be read like: "7 Habits of Highly Effective (Good Future Workers) Teens". Good book. Though, I never finished it. Think I got what I needed from the first three chapters. Maybe I got bored after that, but whatever... it was useful. That can't be denied.
P.D.: According to the Covey typology, those who wrote insults to the book are "reactive" people. Note that most of them were obliged to read the book in the school, just like a task. No with their teachers, but with us, they want to discharge their pain and sorrow and frustration. There's an excellent therapy: sing "The Wall" chorus. It would do best.
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