Wednesday, October 1, 2008
7 Habits: Question #2
Being LDS and knowing that the author was LDS also, it was easy to see A LOT of gospel/church related ideas/principles woven throughout the book. If the author was not LDS do you think you would identify these as such? Do you think that you would find yourself agreeing or disagreeing with him more or less if you didn’t know you shared the same faith as him (if you had a different paradigm)?
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I think knowing the author was LDS made me more willing to accept his ideas and think about them more seriously than if I didn't know his religion. That is always one of my concerns with self help books - the difference in our "paradigms." I'm always unsure how many of their ideas and suggestions are going to fit in with gospel ideals. So I think knowing he was LDS definitely made me agree with him more.
This is a really interesting question and I'm not sure I am capable of answering it honestly or without bias...
That being said, I definitely noticed some little Mormonisms in there. In fact, I read one part out loud to Adam and we started cracking up b/c it was so obviously "Mormon." (Can't remember what it was.) So yes, I do think that I connected with him on some level, knowing that we share a lot of common beliefs, worldview, and goals.
With regards to the second question, I'm not so sure. I think any Christian person would have felt similar to me, agreeing with him wouldn't be too difficult. But if you take someone with a totally different cultural/religious background I would suspect that they would not feel as connected to him as I did. Perhaps they wouldn't be able to identify with his principles as easily. And this may cause them to have more disagreements. Am I making sense? I feel like I'm rambling here...
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