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Summary: If I could give it less, believe me, I would
Review: What an awful piece of vomit-inducing, ridiculously inane, disgustingly grotesque, self-ruining rag this is. You have to be a complete moron to benefit in any way from this crap. Of course, the book-buying public is just lapping it up. You sheep! To top it all off I was forced into reading it and have yet to recover from the damage this horrible thing did to me well-being. I was bored out of my brain, and I just couldn't fathom what an idiot you would have to be to force every class to read it. For an admistrator, in charge of MY education, to think it was a decent book, if you can even call it that. I completely lost any of the dwindling respect I ever had for these morons. This of course was followed by a million other ridiculous things they've had us do afterward. It was the opposite of helpful, it was damaging! But of course, how damaging can a self-help book be, you ask yourself. Therapy, my friends, therapy. That I should have gone to but I didn't. But I digress completely into nonsense. Anyway, the fact that I think the nature of America's self-help hysteria is hypocritical (why do you need a book to help...yourself?) does help to add to my utter and complete disgust. This book, though, goes way beyond simpering self-help nonsense and passes into the realm of "Sean Covey, you've gone to far, come back, come back, ahhhh! 7 habits!! you've gone to far...clunk." I'd just like to say I am completely reactive and uneffective and I'm very proud of this. Why would I want to be highly effective? Pishaw. Stay far away from this book (shudder) and if you ever come across this revolting rag throw it, as Dorothy Parker says, "with great force". Run away! Fear the book! Bwahaha...later kids.
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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: This book is a great guide for teens. It helped me out a lot & is written so that you can understand and relate to it. I use to "be out at all hours" but the book helped me understand life. Now I'm doing better in school, have better friends,and an organized future. You should really get this book.
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Summary: Intriguing
Review: I liked the idea of action based power based on principle center living. Covey, ideas are pragmatic, easy to understand, and translate intuitively. Points of the book that appealed to me were: character oriented development, make a choice based on principles, live is a balance of numerous inputs, prioritize your interests, create a mission statement, and visualize the outcome. Principle center living produces: power, wisdom, safety, and guidance. I was intriged by the 7 step model. Two ideas appeal: gain mastery overself before gaining influence over the public and seek to understand before being understood. Covey's ideas on perception were also good.The synergy chapter was too complex too comprehend. My understanding of synergy is that only very intelligent individuals (geniuses) can understand how synergy works. Synergy is a fine tuning and balancing endeavor to find the right combination producing the optimum results. The difficulty in lumping synergy into one concept is that synergy formulas must constantly changing dependant on the number of new conditions in the environment. If the environment remains constant than synergy is possible and effective. For example, some metal mineral combinations combine too make a stronger product than the sum of its parts. The number of variables effecting the materials seems to be insignificant to the mineral combination. However, to look at cultures and people and say that synergy could be applied group known characteristics into a well known category is uncertain. Covey believes in natural laws which can not be broken. One such law is gravity. Gravity applies consistently to all masses. So a synergistic system centered on natural laws seems pausible. However, I still think Synergy is too complex for most of us to comprehend. Its seems like Coveys ideas on this subject are more idealistic. Suppose, their are individuals who could harshiness synergy consistently, then we could expect them to outproduce the norm by 2,10, or 1600 times. Synergy would become the gold spoon of effectiveness.
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Summary: Helpful
Review: The only reason someone would dislike this book is probably because they were forced to read it, so they didnt give it a chance. It gives alot of personal stories that has actually happened to the author- and also alot of cute and funny little stories that you can take into consideration. It gives reasons to be happy and optimistic, and gives you a whole different perspective on things.
I've noticed a good change in me and all my friends who have read this- for example- if your late for work/school/activities, you usually get frustrated when that one granny pulls in front of you and goes 1 mile per hour. But instead of getting frustrated- I learned that maybe that granny just broke her hip (or something) and is the only person in her household who could drive to the hospital, and cant go fast. And whats an extra 2 minutes late? late is late.
ANYWHO this is a great book and I've really enjoyed being happy because of it. READ AND SUCCED!!!!
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Summary: a contrived piece of garbage
Review: This book will only help you if you are a complete moron. It's a cheap attempt to leverage the popularity of his father's book, and I can't believe the book buying public is that stupid. Can't you just envision Mr. Covey's staff "helping" young Sean with "his book"? Can you hear Mr Covey calling up Steve Young and asking for a nice review? Just like his father's book, this book will not succeed on it's own merits - it's simply a rehash of the common sense advice that's been around for ages, repackaged with an angle. Besides, if you imagine that any teenager is in a position to give sage advice to anyone, you are an idiot.
Just for the record, the "author's" father - Stephen Covey - took standard self-help fare and skewed it toward the interests of the organization, rather than the personal ambition of the individual. This made it very attractive propaganda for corporations to aim at their employees, so those corporations responded to offers to purchase the book at very cheap, bulk rates for distribution to their employees. That ploy generated very high but very phoney sales numbers that placed the book on "best seller" lists for a long time. Once there, it sold like hotcakes because people just assumed it was good. When sales started to slip, Covey's firm offered bulk quantities to big organizations again, thus managing to keep it on the list for a very long time. Covey himself went on the road full time to promote the book. In other words, the book succeeded because of the marketing, but qualitatively, it rates zero stars. Gee, Steve, when does your baby plan to come out with the colorful talking version for toddlers? This book, and it's predeceasor, demonstrate just how easy it is to make a fortune based on the gullibility of the average person.
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Summary: Do I have to give it any stars at all?
Review: I was forced to read this book for an English class in high school and then again for a business class in college. It was the biggest waste of my education time. From what I hear, this book has been very influential in many people's lives, and that saddens me. To me that signifies that good ol' fashion common sense become obsolete. It amazes me that such a large number of people need to read a stupid self-help book to tell them how to live happy lives. How about doing a little thinging of your own?!?!
By the time I cut through all the cliques there was nothing left. If the Covey Empire ever came out with a book that contained original thoughts MAYBE I'd pick it up, but for now I refuse to join the cult and would NOT recommend this book.
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Summary: GREAT book for all teens!!
Review: This book was great! I had to read this for a project at school and when I first looked at it I thought "Oh God another book telling me how to live my life", but it was well worth reading. Every teen should read this book, the author is very easy to understand and gives it to you straight. I did'nt want to read this but now I am reccomending it to every teen!!
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Summary: It's All About Inspiring the Teenagers
Review: Habits. Some are good, and some are bad, and The Seven Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey lists out the main ones-positive and negative-for teens. Sean is an amazing author who really does understand how his audience feels about life. Through his voice and style of writing, you would think that he was actually in the pit, the climax, of teenage life.
This book can really change one's outlook on life. After reading it, I changed some of the things I was doing to mess up my life, and ever since, I have never been happier. It teaches how to make and break habits, and how what you practice is what you will be. Sean Covey teaches that, in order to change the world, you need to start with yourself.
He breaks down the good habits of life, and ranks the top seven that teenagers need in order to be successful. Be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think win-win, seek first to understand, then to be understood, synergize, and sharpen the saw. He keeps your attention alive by giving you questions to answer and quotes to remember.
In order to find out anything else, you'll have to read this awesome book!
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Summary: Read it at school, although it isn't really needed
Review: The 7 habits of highly effective teens? I don't know how much simpler it can get than that. The only problem is, this book isn't that helpful. The writer does a pretty good job of making you feel like hes with you, but he is an adult writing a teens book. Times change. I'm sure when he was a teen it was much different. If you seriously need this book to get back on track... I feel for you. A person doesn't need someone to tell them how to become highly effective, the book only tells you the obvious. Renew myself every once and a while? Sure I could do that. I don't know how though. Build up my self-esteem? O, I thought I was supposed to destroy it, this book really saved me on that one... not... What i'm trying to tell you is that you should be out there livin it up, instead of at home reading about how to live it up. A highly effective person knows that they should be spending their time on productive things, not learning how to be productive, and frankly, I think the writer should of been living it up instead of writing about how to live it up. You gotta figure these things out for yourself, and learn how to treat yourself good on your own. The book is morely something that people fall on to when they are in need of desperate help, let me sum it up for you. Live the best you can, and if you over work yourself...renew yourself. There, now go live it up.
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Summary: Very Well-written
Review: The book is great. I'm glad I read it because it really helped me with time-management. It is very easy to read with a lot of quotes, pictures, and good ideas. If you are a teenager, I suggest you read it.
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