The 7 Habits of Highly Defective Teens

Be Proactive

• Take responsibility for your life.

• Get paid to be an actor

• Blame all your problems on other people.

Begin with the End in Mind

• Don't have a plan, avoid goals at all costs.

• Define your mission and goals in life.

• Skip the beginning steps and just do the final steps.

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Put First Things First

• Make sure that fun things come before important

  things.

• Number everything and do things in number order.

• Prioritize, and do the most important things first.

Think Win-Win

• See life as a vicious competition.

• Have an everyone-can-win attitude.

• Know that in life only first and second place count.

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Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood

• Listen to people sincerely.

• Pretend to listen to others by nodding and

  saying “uh-huh” often.

• You were given a mouth for a reason - talk a lot so that people understand you.

Synergize

• Don’t Cooperate.

• Always be active and moving around to get things done.

• Work together to achieve more.

Sharpen the Saw

• Renew yourself regularly.

• Wear yourself out doing everything you can while you're young.

• Split time between schoolwork and construction work to be balanced.

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React

• Always look at who you're talking to.

• If you’re bored, make trouble. If someone yells at you, yell back.

• Be in control of your own life.

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Begin with No End in Mind

• Never think about the future.

• Focus on your goals, no matter what.

• Don't start until you know how things will end.

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Put First Things Last

• Do the things that matter most right away.

• Complete important work before you have fun.

• Make sure that fun things come before important things.

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