The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People（2）

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The world has changed dramatically（翻天覆地的变化） since the seven habits of highly effective people was first published.

Life is more complex, more stressful, more demanding.生活更复杂，压力更大，要求更高。

We have transitioned from the industrial age（工业时代） into the information knowledge worker age（信息知识工作者时代）, with all of its profound consequences（深远的影响）.

We face challenges and problems in our personal lives, our families, and our organizations unimagined even one and two decades ago.我们在个人生活、家庭和组织中面临着甚至在一二十年前都无法想象的挑战和问题。

These challenges are not only of a new order of magnitude（新的数量级）, they are altogether different in kind（在性质上完全不同）.

These sweeping changes in society and the rumbling shifts in the digitized global marketplace gives rise to a very important question, one that I'm asked fairly often（相当频繁）.

社会的这些彻底变化和数字化全球市场的隆隆变化引发了一个非常重要的问题，我经常被问到这个问题。

Are the seven habits of highly effective people still relevant（适用） today?

relevant information 相关信息 relevant data 有关数据 relevant experience 相关工作经验

And for that matter（就此而言）, will they be relevant（有意义） 10, 20, 50, 100 years from now?

My answer is very simple.

The greater the change and the more difficult our challenges, the more relevant the habits become.

Why? What's the reason?

Why would they become more relevant?

It's because our problems and our pain are universal and increasing, and the solutions to the problems are and will always be based upon universal, timeless, self-evident principles common to every enduring, prospering society throughout history.

这是因为我们的问题和痛苦是普遍存在的，而且还在不断增加，而解决问题的方法现在并将永远基于历史上每个持久、繁荣的社会所共有的普遍、永恒、不言而喻的原则。

I did not invent these principles.I take no credit for them.（这不是我的功劳）

I've simply identified and organized them into a sequential framework（顺序框架）.

One of the most profound learnings of my life is this.

If you want to achieve your highest aspirations and overcome your greatest challenges, identify and apply the principle or natural law that governs the results you seek.请确定并应用支配您所寻求结果的原则或自然法则。

How we apply a principle will vary greatly and will be determined by our unique strengths, talents, and creativity.

我们如何应用原则会有很大差异，这取决于我们独特的优势、才能和创造力。

But ultimately, success in any endeavor is always derived from acting in harmony with the principles to which the success is tied.？？？但归根结底，任何努力的成功总是源于与成功相关的原则的协调一致。

Many people do not think this way, at least consciously.许多人不这么想，至少有意识地不这么想。

In fact, you will increasingly find that principled solutions stand in stark contrast to（与...形成鲜明对比） the common practices and thinking of our popular culture.

事实上，您会越来越多地发现，有原则的解决方案与我们流行文化的普遍做法和思想形成鲜明对比。

Allow me to illustrate this contrast with a few of the most common human challenges we face.

请允许我用我们面临的一些最常见的人类挑战来说明这种对比。