The seven habits, revisited (well, Chapter One at least)

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Inger was too scared to drive her new Tesla and Jason was scared
he'd lost his drone at sea. Luckily Jason did not have to tell
Cath the boy toy went missing and at least Thesis Whisperer Jnr
thinks Inger's new book Level Up Your Essays is 'not that
boring'.

We take up the challenge, put to us by a sadly anonymous listener
on SpeakPipe, to talk about why the famous book 'Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People' by Stephen Covey is a problematic fave.
Inger couldn't remember why she thought it was problematic, and
Jason always reckoned it was great, so we decided to read it
again.

We've got as far as chapter one and Inger had a lot of
notes.

Inger enlightens Jason about the origin of the book as a
literature review for Covey's PhD thesis and some of the
surprising influences on Covey's thinking. Inger does a feminist
critique of Covey's ideas, but comes away deciding they are not
entirely rubbish. Jason promises to read chapter two for next
time, so this could take awhile.

Jason doesn't have a 2 minute tip, but thought Inger's tip was
super awesome - but you'll have to listen to most of the episode
to find out!

Late note: @robjforsyth on Twitter inspired this conversation by
leaving us a message on SpeakPipe - thanks Rob!

Mentioned in this ep:
Level Up Your Essays - Inger's new book with Katherine Firth and
Shaun Lehmann.
The seven habits of highly effective people by Stephen
Covey
Criticism of Covey's book by Baptists
The book of 5 rings
Connected Papers




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