Habit 1:.......Begin with the end in mind
Habit 2:.......Accept responsibility for your own learning
Habit 3:.......View problems as challenges
Habit 4:.......Have confidence in yourself as a competent, effective learner
Habit 5:.......Create your own learning toolbox
Habit 6:.......Use technology to your advantage
Habit 7:.......Teach/mentor others Habit
Habit 7 ½:..Play
Above is a list of the seven habits from the presentation.
The easiest habit for me is viewing problems as challenges.
Actually, I don’t see how this statement can be anything else. To me, a problem is an obstacle that must be dealt with. One must overcome it one way or another. How could a problem not be a challenge?
Everyday in my life, I meet obstacles (problems) and I must adapt and overcome them. Do I enjoy these challenges? For the most part…No…but I also don’t shy away from them.
Whether it be, making time for my going over my son’s homework and finding time for him to have play time (not easy when he goes to school from 8:30am till 6:30pm) and figuring out what we are going to eat tonight (and more importantly what is my son going to eat) or how am I going to prepare for the next class project and how do I answer this customer’s question?
Again, these challenges are dealt with everyday…and even though I may not like dealing with them sometimes…I do appreciate them because I learn from them and grow (learning about ones shortcomings is also a good way of growing I hope).
The hardest habit for me is the seventh habit (Teach/mentor others Habit)
I was raised in a Wall Street environment in regards to work. I realize the importance of training others so that they can function, but in a dog-eat-dog-world environment, the top dog is the one who can't be replaced. With all the outsourcing and mergers that happened at JPMorgan Chase, one of the reasons I stayed there for over 8 years was because no one else could do what I could do so well. Yes, I worked hard but so did others. I saw many hard workers put all their energy in their work and trained others with the knowledge that took years and hard work to acquire only to find themselves replaced by the newer cheaper labor that had learned the jobs through mentoring.
I don't believe that I will ever change this habit...not until I no longer need to work and don't have to worry about my job security. Sure I will train what isrequired, but I will not teach others the things/tricks that took me years to perfect/learn to someone new. They too have to discover things through experience...and not have it given it to them on a silver platter. After all, overcoming challenges is what make a person 3-dimensional and helps him/her grow.
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The courage and honesty in disclosing your hardest part-teaching/mentoring- is indeed admirable. Personal teaching/mentoring outside one's own work/career, is never free. However,with the upsurging of the Internet, knowledge and skills are much easier to obtain online nowadays.
I agree that with the Internet knowledge has indeed been easier to obtain (thinking more of the niche skills). However, I believe that the knowledge for many things have always been available through books and unfortunately many people do not put the effort to try to learn something new unless it is some form of mandatory need (either because forced by work or required to get the job). Which works fine I guess as I believe the people who put the extra effort to further educate themselves and dare I say enrich their lives will always have a slight competitive edge in work and life (similarly to the people who have connections).
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