HABITS OF HIGHLY EFFETIVE PEOPLE

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The personality and character ethics

at the same ,in addition to my research on perception, I was also deeply immersed in an in- depth study of the success literature publish in the united states since 1776 .

As my study took me back through 200 years of writing about success , I noticed a starting pattern emerging in the content of the literature .because of your own pain , and because of similar pain i had seen in the lives and relation of many people

In stock contrast ,almost all the literature in the first 150 years or so focused on what could be called the character ethic as the foundation of success- thing like integrity , humility , the story of one man effort to integrate certain principles and habits deep within his nature .

There was a lot more wrapped up in the way we were seeing and handling the problem than our concern for son welfare .

As Sandra and I talked , we became painfully aware of the powerful influence of our own character and motives and of our perception

but shortly after world war i the basic view of success shifted from the character ethic to what we might call the personality ethic .

This personality ethic essentially took two paths one was human and public relation techniques and the other was positive mental attitude .some of this philosophy was expressed in inspiring and sometimes valid maxix such as your attitude determines your altitude .