The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective Teens

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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.