Is this book bullshit? Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Proactive

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We're back! It's been six weeks - sorry about that!


Jason was finally struck down by covid... for the first time.
Yes, really! Now he finally understands what everyone is
complaining about. There's a lot to catch up on: the election, a
digression into 'Married at first sight' and what happens to a
sander when you use it for 6 hours straight on your boat
hull. 


We get half way through a very full mailbag, before getting on to
our dissection of chapter one of Stephen Covey's Seven Habits of
Highly Effective People. This is the third time we've talked
about this book, and we're only now doing Habit One: proactivity
... look, we have a lot to say! Check out episode 17, where we
discuss how the book is really Mormonism pretending to be
productivity, and chapter 38 where we talk about chapter three.


Be warned - it gets very deep and meaningful. In fact, we get so
into it that we forgot to do a two minute tip! We'll make it up
to you, we promise.


Things we mention


Previous discussions of 7 Habits: episode 17 and chapter 38

Academic Mean Girls 

Inger reckons Andy Kirk is your go to for Data visualisation

Back to Zero - the paper 

Book: The voices within: the history and science of how we
talk to ourselves

Book: Team Dog

Book: The presentation of self in everyday life

The Valley of Shit (blog post about Jason when he was doing
his PhD)

Book: Striking Ore: the rise and fall of union power in the
Pilbara

Book: Enemy Fe



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