内容简介
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, the beloved classic that has sold over 20 million copies worldwide, is celebrating its 25th anniversary with this reissue! With a new foreword, the wisdom of the 7 Habits still holds true after all these years. The 7 Habits have become so famous because they work. They have been integrated into everyday thinking by many millions of people. The reason: They work. Habit 1: Be Proactive. Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind. Habit 3: Put First Things First. Habit 4: Think Win/Win. Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood. Habit 6: Synergize. Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw. The book presents a principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity - principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
作者简介
Recognized as one of Time magazine's 25 most influential Americans, Stephen R. Covey has dedicated his life to demonstrating how every person can truly control their destiny with profound, yet straightforward guidance. As an internationally respected leadership authority, family expert, teacher, organizational consultant and author, his advice has given insight to millions. He has sold over 20 million books sold (in 38 languages), and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was named the No. 1 Most Influential Business Book of the Twentieth Century. His most recent major book, The 8th Habit , has sold nearly 400,000 copies. He holds an MBA from Harvard, and doctorate degree from Brigham Young University. He is the co-founder and vice chairman of FranklinCovey, the leading global professional services firm with offices in 123 countries. He lives with his wife and family in Utah.
精彩书评
According to Steven R. Covey, to live with security and wisdom, and to have the power to take advantages of the opportunities that change creates, we need fairness, integrity, honesty and human dignity. Quite a tall order when you consider that most of us live our lives in a permanent state of flux, questioning our ideals and values and fighting a daily battle with the lack of self-confidence that stops us from taking risks of any kind. But, in The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey manages to make it sound as if changing the way we look at ourselves and the world around us so that we can become more successful both personally and professionally an absolute doddle. He defines the "habits" as "the intersection of knowledge, skill and desire" and states that the "Seven Habits" of the title are not mutually exclusive, but rather when developed together help to form a well-rounded, sensitive, confident and effective human being.
As with many self-help books, much of what you read here is based on basic common sense and can at times be irritatingly obvious. However, what Covey manages to do so successfully is to break down the barriers which prevent all of us from taking a long hard look at ourselves, and then gradually introduces new rules which allow us to move first from dependence to independence and then towards the ultimate goal of interdependence. But of course, the only real way to test the value of The Habits--be proactive, begin with the end in mind, put first things first, think "win/win", seek first to understand and then to be understood, synergise, sharpen the saw-- is to work on them. This book is as good as any place to start on the road to self-awareness and self-improvement in the workplace and in the home without becoming too irritatingly smug and self-satisfied. --Susan Harrison
前言/序言
《心流:最优体验心理学》 作者:米哈里·契克森米哈赖 (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi) 译者:李文辉 出版社:中信出版社 --- 内容简介 深入探索人类幸福与潜能的终极奥秘 在当今这个充满干扰、信息过载的时代,我们常常感到空虚、焦虑,似乎生命的大部分时间都在“等待”什么——等待周末、等待假期、等待下一次成功。我们追求物质的丰富,却发现内心的平静与真正的满足感日益稀缺。我们渴望高效,却常常在低效的忙碌中迷失方向。 那么,真正的幸福和巅峰体验究竟藏在哪里?人类如何才能在日常生活中,持续地感受到生命的活力与意义? 米哈里·契克森米哈赖教授,这位享誉全球的积极心理学奠基人之一,用他跨越半个世纪的开创性研究,为我们揭示了一个令人振奋的答案:《心流:最优体验心理学》。 什么是“心流”? “心流”(Flow)并非一种偶然的狂喜,而是一种可以被系统性诱发的心理状态。它指的是个体完全沉浸于某种活动之中,感到精力充沛、高度专注,以至于忘记了时间、忘记了自我,并在活动结束后感到由衷的满足和成长的经验。这种状态被契克森米哈赖称为“最优体验”。 本书核心洞察: 本书并非一本空泛的励志手册,而是一部基于严谨的实证研究和深度访谈的心理学巨著。作者深入探访了来自世界各地、不同领域(从顶尖的艺术家、科学家、运动员到普通的手工艺人、外科医生)的数千名个体,试图理解他们在生命中最快乐、最有成就感的时刻,内心究竟发生了什么。 1. 结构化体验的艺术:超越享乐主义 契克森米哈赖指出,许多人将幸福等同于享乐——被动的消费、感官的刺激。然而,这些体验往往短暂且令人空虚。心流的产生需要个体投入到一项具有挑战性、需要高度技能的活动中。关键在于“挑战”与“技能”的完美平衡。当挑战略微超出我们当前的能力范围,但又在可控的范围内时,我们的大脑便会被完全调动起来,进入高度专注的“心流频道”。 2. 自我超越与掌控感:意义的源泉 在心流状态下,人会体验到强烈的掌控感,即使活动本身充满困难。这种掌控感并非来自于对外部环境的控制,而是源于对自身行动和反应的完全把握。心流体验的积累,最终构建了我们对“自我”更深层次的理解和肯定,从而产生真正的内在驱动力,而非外部奖励的驱动。 3. 复杂自我的形成:整合生活体验 本书详尽地论述了心流如何影响我们的生活结构。作者认为,心流不仅仅是个体在特定时刻的感受,更是塑造我们人格、兴趣和生活目标的关键机制。通过有意识地将日常活动转化为心流体验的机会,我们可以建立一个“复杂而有组织的自我”(Complex Self),这种自我更具弹性、更懂得如何从环境中汲取能量。 4. 跨越领域的应用:从工作到人际关系 《心流》的伟大之处在于其普适性。书中不仅涵盖了艺术家在创作中的沉浸,也深入探讨了如何在办公室、在课堂、在家庭生活中创造心流环境。它为管理者提供了激发团队潜能的思路,为教育者提供了设计更有吸引力学习体验的蓝图,更为每个人提供了一套重新审视和设计自己生活的工具。 本书为您带来的变革: 重新定义“成功”: 帮助您从追逐外界认可的陷阱中解脱出来,转向内在的充实与满足。 掌握专注力: 提供实用的视角,理解如何对抗现代社会的注意力分散,重夺心智的主权。 发现真正的热情所在: 通过心流的特征,您能更清晰地识别出那些让您忘我投入、并能带来持续成长的活动。 提升生活质量: 学会如何将日常生活中的琐碎事务,转化为充满挑战与意义的体验。 献给谁? 无论您是职业倦怠的白领、寻求创新突破的管理者、渴望激发学习兴趣的教育工作者,还是任何一位对“如何过上更有意义、更充实的生活”抱有深刻探究意愿的人,《心流》都是一本不容错过的指南。它邀请您停止被动地“度过”时间,开始主动地“创造”生活。 米哈里·契克森米哈赖: 匈牙利裔美国心理学家,积极心理学的先驱。他的研究开创了对人类幸福和潜能的科学探索,被誉为“研究幸福感的权威”。《心流》是他的代表作,影响了全球数百万读者,并深刻地改变了心理学、教育学和管理学的研究范式。
这本书的书名在我书架上已经占据了一席之地有一段时间了,我一直被它低调的封面设计和那句响亮的“高效能人士”所吸引。每一次在书店或在线浏览时,我都会不自觉地将目光停留在它上面,仿佛它蕴藏着某种我尚未发掘的智慧宝藏。我总是想象着,这本书的作者是如何将那些看似简单却极其深刻的道理,用一种深入浅出的方式呈现给读者的。我特别好奇,那些“七个习惯”到底是什么?它们是如何被提炼出来的?而且,这本书以“平装”的形式出现,这本身就带有一种亲民感,让我觉得它不是那种高高在上的学术著作,而是能够走进生活、触手可及的实用指南。我甚至幻想过,如果我能够切实地将书中的某个习惯融入到我的日常生活中,我的工作效率、人际关系,甚至是对待生活本身的态度,是否会发生质的飞跃?这本书对我来说,已经不仅仅是一本待读的书,更像是一个潜在的伙伴,一个能够引领我走向更好自我的指路明灯。我期待着有一天,当我翻开它的扉页,能够感受到那种被知识和启发所点燃的激动。