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#mastery
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People (Stephen R. Covey)
No true mastery without daily effort
You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve true mastery of the subjects you study or develop an educated mind.
Dependent people cannot choose interdependence
Dependent people cannot choose to become interdependent. They don’t have the character to do it; they don’t own enough of themselves. That’s why Habits 1, 2, and 3 in the following chapters deal with self-mastery. They move a person from dependence to independence.
Real success is victory over self
He records that he was almost loathe to leave his prison cell because it was there that he realized that real success is success with self. It’s not in having things, but in having mastery, having victory over self.
The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
The separate ego is a fiction
the more it becomes clear that to be is to quarrel and to pursue self-interest, the more you are compelled to recognize your need for enemies to support you. In the same way, the more resolutely you plumb the question “Who or what am I?”—the more unavoidable is the realization…