Part 1: Find Your Voice
Chapter 4
This chapter is about what Dr. Covey calls our “birth gifts.” Our three most important birth gifts are:
1) our freedom and power to choose
2) natural laws and principles
3) our four intelligences/capacities
Our power to choose
Probably the most oft-repeated theme with Covey is our power to make choices and create our future. On page 42 he says, “Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In those choices lie our growth and our happiness.”
Natural laws or principles
Dr. Covey explains that principles are 1) universal, 2) timeless, 3) inarguable. I happen to strongly agree with him that there are in fact universal and timeless principles that exist and govern the consequences of our choices. The challenge then, is to recognize principles and align our lives with them.
Our four intelligences/capacities
Covey explains that our four intelligences are:
1) mental intelligence
2) physical intelligence
3) emotional intelligence
4) spiritual intelligence
Chapter 5
Covey explains that all great achievers have simply greatly expanded their four natives human intelligences and that the highest manifestations our vision, discipline, passion, conscience related to the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual intelligences respectively.
Vision is the idea that all things are created twice: first, mentally; second, physically. Dr. Covey likens this to a blueprint of the house or musical notes in a score just waiting to be played, which I found to be a very effective analogy.
Discipline is making the vision reality – the execution and making it all happen.
Passion is sort of the “fire within.” It is the excitement, the drive, the determination, and emotional connection to our life’s work.
Conscience is really the glue that holds all of the intelligences and manifestations of those intelligences together. “It is the moral law within.”
“Voice” lies at the nexus of talent, need, passion, conscience. I really like the four questions he suggests on page 86.
1) What need do I sense (in my family, and my community, in the organization I work for)?
2) Do I possess a true talent that, if disciplined and applied, can meet the need?
3) Does the opportunity to meet that need tap into my passion?
4) Does my conscience inspire me to take action and become involved?
Covey explains that our four intelligences are:
1) mental intelligence
2) physical intelligence
3) emotional intelligence
4) spiritual intelligence
Chapter 5
Covey explains that all great achievers have simply greatly expanded their four natives human intelligences and that the highest manifestations our vision, discipline, passion, conscience related to the mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual intelligences respectively.
Vision is the idea that all things are created twice: first, mentally; second, physically. Dr. Covey likens this to a blueprint of the house or musical notes in a score just waiting to be played, which I found to be a very effective analogy.
Discipline is making the vision reality – the execution and making it all happen.
Passion is sort of the “fire within.” It is the excitement, the drive, the determination, and emotional connection to our life’s work.
Conscience is really the glue that holds all of the intelligences and manifestations of those intelligences together. “It is the moral law within.”
“Voice” lies at the nexus of talent, need, passion, conscience. I really like the four questions he suggests on page 86.
1) What need do I sense (in my family, and my community, in the organization I work for)?
2) Do I possess a true talent that, if disciplined and applied, can meet the need?
3) Does the opportunity to meet that need tap into my passion?
4) Does my conscience inspire me to take action and become involved?
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