The Book That Just Might Change Your Life

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (1998)
Covey, Sean
Non-Fiction
9/10


The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens is an “Ultimate teenage success guide.” This basically tells you how to be a successful teenager and a person throughout your life. It goes through each habit and tells you examples of what others have done either good or bad and how you can learn from that, how they should have or shouldn’t have handled the situations in the book according to the books teachings. This book shows you all the techniques that you can use in your life to be successful and how to be a better person. It also shows how you can do these techniques.
I think the main theme in this book is to work to the end. My meaning of that statement is to keep going forward and don’t stop until you get what you want. But he also basically tells you the right choice will put you in the right place, and if you don’t make a good choice you need to get out of that and make a good decision to put you back on path.
This book is written in first person as if he was sitting with you and talking to you. He has a very humorous style of writing to keep you interested as he feeds you this knowledge that will help you do better. The author, Sean Covey, wrote it so it can be an alternative to his dad’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, and will still be interesting to people in their teenage years. It also helps you think am I doing this in my life, what can I apply this to in my life, and stuff like that.
I think that the intended audience is teenagers (hence the name) but I also feel that it can be read by adults that don’t want this book that will bore you to death. So it can be for all ages it would help you in your adult life if you just apply them right to your life. But I would not recommend this to anyone under the age of 13. I don’t think that they would be able to understand it and it might be a little to complex for them. Going back to talking about adults reading this it does have examples that probably wouldn’t apply to them since they don’t really have those problems anymore. But it might still be nice to read.
I would highly recommend this to all teenagers that haven’t read it yet because it would help them in there day to day lives. I just picked it up to see how it was and I liked it. And for adults it would still be good to read it is just not really intended as much for them. “An intensive training program for youth to grow and become winners in the competition of life.” (Kristi Yamaguchi, U.S. Olympic Figure Skating Gold Medalist) “This book is a touchdown.” (Steve Young, Quarterback, San Francisco 49ers) “This book has many positive, inspirational, and motivational strategies to help teenagers live up to their potential.” (Dr. Laura C. Schlessinger, author of Ten Stupid Things Women Do to Mess up Their Lives)