7 friends, 7 habits
Zelda's bestest friend started a book club via the internet.
We have been reading "The 7 habits of highly successful people".
A book I have owned for years and have never finished...
It has been wonderful to discuss this with Zelda in particular, and others as I have my own interpretations and frames of reference.
Z has presented a view from across the way that has been refreshing.
What is your idea of "the Personality Ethic vs. the Character Ethic?"
It's sometimes difficult to see when right in the middle of it...
I have strayed, like most folks, from the Character ethic towards the Personality.
***
(for those who have not had a chance to read it, for the first 150 years of US literature, the focus was on the Character Ethic, what is inside is important. Character, courage, integrity, faith.
It has since changed to Personality. How you sell yourself, what people think, etc.
Character Ethic:
An example given is the farm.
There is a process that must happen before the harvest.
The soil is prepared.
Seed planted.
Tended.
and after a set period of time,
the crop is ready for harvesting.
Nothing can short circuit this principle.
Personality Ethic:
Cramming for an exam.
Play all week till the night before the exam then study all night in an effort to 'learn it all'.
the point being is, you can't cram on the farm (the principle),
forget to plant in the spring, play all summer then squeeze the planting tending, and harvest into one week.
***
It, along with the fresh food we've been buying brought this thought on investing.
Someone gives you some eggs.
They are viable and if tended too long enough, will hatch into chickens, ducks, geese, etc.
Which if tended to and managed (and left alone) will produce more eggs,
which given enough time will hatch into more live stock.
some eggs can be sold for income
some eggs can be raised for chicks which can be sold
others raised till adulthood for sale
and the last raised to continue making eggs
which can be sold for income
or....
The question becomes
"what will You do with the eggs?"
I find I spend them.
Cash them out before they can even hatch.
And lately, I have sold them before they are even laid...
This puts me in a bind...
Change "eggs" to "Money"
and it still works the same way...
So...
what are you doing with your eggs?
We have been reading "The 7 habits of highly successful people".
A book I have owned for years and have never finished...
It has been wonderful to discuss this with Zelda in particular, and others as I have my own interpretations and frames of reference.
Z has presented a view from across the way that has been refreshing.
What is your idea of "the Personality Ethic vs. the Character Ethic?"
It's sometimes difficult to see when right in the middle of it...
I have strayed, like most folks, from the Character ethic towards the Personality.
***
(for those who have not had a chance to read it, for the first 150 years of US literature, the focus was on the Character Ethic, what is inside is important. Character, courage, integrity, faith.
It has since changed to Personality. How you sell yourself, what people think, etc.
Character Ethic:
An example given is the farm.
There is a process that must happen before the harvest.
The soil is prepared.
Seed planted.
Tended.
and after a set period of time,
the crop is ready for harvesting.
Nothing can short circuit this principle.
Personality Ethic:
Cramming for an exam.
Play all week till the night before the exam then study all night in an effort to 'learn it all'.
the point being is, you can't cram on the farm (the principle),
forget to plant in the spring, play all summer then squeeze the planting tending, and harvest into one week.
***
It, along with the fresh food we've been buying brought this thought on investing.
Someone gives you some eggs.
They are viable and if tended too long enough, will hatch into chickens, ducks, geese, etc.
Which if tended to and managed (and left alone) will produce more eggs,
which given enough time will hatch into more live stock.
some eggs can be sold for income
some eggs can be raised for chicks which can be sold
others raised till adulthood for sale
and the last raised to continue making eggs
which can be sold for income
or....
The question becomes
"what will You do with the eggs?"
I find I spend them.
Cash them out before they can even hatch.
And lately, I have sold them before they are even laid...
This puts me in a bind...
Change "eggs" to "Money"
and it still works the same way...
So...
what are you doing with your eggs?
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