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Character Ethic And The Personality Ethic Essay

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The two major areas or paradigms that need to be shifted, are the perceptions people hold of life as well as how they interact with the world around them. The author mentions these as the “Character Ethic and the Personality Ethic.” (Covey, 23) The character ethic are the things that we perceive to be how we see ourselves. An example would be a generous person or a person of integrity. The personality ethic is our worldviews and how we use that perception to interact with our world. These can be entrenched traits that can have a paradigm shift for change. As for the water, the analogy is given of two fish swimming in the water and an older fish says “how’s the water, the two fish say to each other, what the hell is water” (Dr. Sterken, Video Lecture) This is a great example of disconnect from our own environment. It is virtually impossible to change what we do not perceive as needing change, both about ourselves and the world around us. One of the biggest revelations this teaching brings about is the self-conditioning that we have naturally gone though. Professor Sterken says if perfectly in, “We do not see things as they are, we see things as we are.” (Sterken, Video lecture) Getting out of ourselves long enough, will help us to see and do the changes necessary for personal paradigm shifts.
Question 3.
One of the principles is “The Principle Centered Paradigm”, (Covey, 32) this talks about the very core of who we are, that part of us that does not accept compromise. An

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