Study Guide Questions

Part I. The Setup 

Get in the Habit

Questions:

1.) How do your habits either make you or break you? 

2.) Why is it important to master the Private Victory before mastering the public victory?

Answers:

1.) Your habits can either be good habits which result in positive results or they can be bad habits which result in negative results; keep in mind that bad habits and negative results can lead to a poor reputation. 

2.) It is important to master the Private Victory before mastering the public victory because you must get your personal act in line before you can have a good behavior among others. 

Paradigms & Principles

1.) What is a Paradigm Shift?

2.) What makes friends an unstable center?

3.) Why does not centering your life on a boyfriend or girlfriend strengthen the relationship?

4.) What makes a principle-centered life stable.

Answers:

1.) A Paradigm Shift is where you suddenly see things in a new way.

2.) Friends are an unstable center because they're fickle, they're fake, and sometimes they talk behind your back or develop new friendships and forget yours. They have mood swings and they move. If you base your identity on having friends, being accepted, and being popular, you may find yourself compromising your standards or changing them every weekend to accommodate your friends.

3.) The ironic thing is that the more you center your life on someone else, the more unattractive you become to that person. If you're centered on someone, you're no longer hard to get. It is irritating when someone builds their entire emotional life around you.

4.) A principled centered life is simply most stable, immovable, unshakable foundation you can build upon. Putting principles first is the key to doing better in all the other centers. If you live the principles of service, respect, love, for instance, you're likely to pick up more friends and be a more stable boyfriend or girlfriend.