The program that I am studying in college is called LTA; Library Technical Assistant. In this semester, I am taking ‘readers’ advisory’ and ‘library workplace skill’ classes of that program.
Our textbook in ‘library workplace skill’ class is ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ written by Stephen R. Covey. This is an excellent book and I will write what I learn from this book and my opinion on this book, later. Here, what I am going to write is Covey’s instruction – LTD.
Covey suggests us, the readers that when we read this book, to follow or practice these three steps, LTD:
(1) Learn
(2) Teach, and
(3) Do (it).
Then, I am thinking why he intently and significantly gives this advice to us. Let us see.
(1) Learn: It is simple. We have to learn, study and absorb idea, concepts and knowledge of the book. Learn!
(2) Teach: This is Covey’s very artful and strategic advice. I was a teacher in a State Middle School of Burma. I taught English, Math and History to 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. A basic thing that I learned through a teacher’s experience was – ‘I needed to understand well about the subject before I entered into the classroom.’ Win-win situation is also usually occurred from the good teaching for good reason between teacher and student/s. Moreover, that idea, subject or concept is spread. I think because of those reasons (well understanding, win-win and spreading), Covey set up this advice – ‘Teach!’
(3) Do: Have you been read one of the Aesop’s fables, ‘The Wizard,’ which was about a well-known fortuneteller? One day, rich fortuneteller’s possessions were stolen. Then, a man asked him that why he did not foresee his misfortune by himself. The answer was “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” Often, we find that it is difficult to practice or keep going on something though we believe in that it is right and appropriate to do, especially when something concerns with big change, such as our habit, belief, etc. I think that’s why Covey urge us to ‘Do.’
Actually, not only about 7 habits those Covey conducts, but also many things in our lives suppose to be enthusiastically learned, win-winly taught and practically done.
Our textbook in ‘library workplace skill’ class is ‘7 Habits of Highly Effective People’ written by Stephen R. Covey. This is an excellent book and I will write what I learn from this book and my opinion on this book, later. Here, what I am going to write is Covey’s instruction – LTD.
Covey suggests us, the readers that when we read this book, to follow or practice these three steps, LTD:
(1) Learn
(2) Teach, and
(3) Do (it).
Then, I am thinking why he intently and significantly gives this advice to us. Let us see.
(1) Learn: It is simple. We have to learn, study and absorb idea, concepts and knowledge of the book. Learn!
(2) Teach: This is Covey’s very artful and strategic advice. I was a teacher in a State Middle School of Burma. I taught English, Math and History to 6th, 7th and 8th grade students. A basic thing that I learned through a teacher’s experience was – ‘I needed to understand well about the subject before I entered into the classroom.’ Win-win situation is also usually occurred from the good teaching for good reason between teacher and student/s. Moreover, that idea, subject or concept is spread. I think because of those reasons (well understanding, win-win and spreading), Covey set up this advice – ‘Teach!’
(3) Do: Have you been read one of the Aesop’s fables, ‘The Wizard,’ which was about a well-known fortuneteller? One day, rich fortuneteller’s possessions were stolen. Then, a man asked him that why he did not foresee his misfortune by himself. The answer was “It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.” Often, we find that it is difficult to practice or keep going on something though we believe in that it is right and appropriate to do, especially when something concerns with big change, such as our habit, belief, etc. I think that’s why Covey urge us to ‘Do.’
Actually, not only about 7 habits those Covey conducts, but also many things in our lives suppose to be enthusiastically learned, win-winly taught and practically done.
Special thanks to guru Stephen R. Covey for his deeply thinking, writing and sharing with us, and our instrutor, Professor Linda Slusar who set up this fruitful book, 'The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People,' to be our textbook in the class.
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