The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Revised and Updated: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

by Stephen R. Covey

This brings into focus one of the basic flaws of the Personality Ethic. To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes and behaviors flow.

Kuhn shows how almost every significant breakthrough in the field of scientific endeavor is first a break with tradition, with old ways of thinking, with old paradigms.

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Our behavior is a function of our decisions, not our conditions.

“No one can hurt you without your consent.”