Yo, today's QOTS! All of us think we see the world as it is. In fact, we see the world as we are. Here we go!

Welcome back to the QOTS! I'm your host, Sean Crockson, a Sean Crockson.com. We got Steven, our

Covey on this show today. You know what? I'm a little embarrassed to say this. Every once in a while,

there'll be a book that multiple people will tell me to read. They'll be like, oh my gosh,

Sean, you have to read this book. It's so good. And when this happens, I won't read the book. I don't

know why I'm this way, but I just won't read the book. I mean, I ain't reading that book. I'm going

to read some other book. I'm just that dude, right? And Steven Covey's book, The Seven Habits of

Highly Effective People, has been on my shelf for like 12 years. And last week, I decided, you know

what? I'm going to read this. I cracked it open and I was like, oh my goodness, this is such a good

book. And I'm kind of mad at myself for not reading this book like 12 years ago. But the point is,

read the book. So if you haven't read Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, or it's been a long

time since you've read The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, I highly encourage you to like

read it now or to read it again. And today, what he's going to talk about is how we perceive and

interpret the world through the lens of these mental maps that we have in our brains. And these

mental maps are based on, you know, our own assumptions of the way things are and the way that we are.

But these assumptions aren't always real. They aren't always true. Steven Covey, he's coming up.

A paradigm comes from the Greek root, paradigm. It basically means a pattern, a model, a representation,

something that stands for something else. It comes from the mental image you have in your mind

of the way things are out there. And the images we carry in our heads of the way things are of

reality come basically from our own backgrounds, our own experiences. All of us think we see the world

as it is. In fact, we see the world as we are. We project onto the outside world, our environment,

the people we associate with, including how we see ourselves. We project out of our own conditioning

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