from the drive

On the drive to New Orleans, I was listening to Stephen Covey's lectures of the 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. I'd listened to it before, after getting over the impression that it was aimed at go-getter businessperson types. But re-listening to some of them in the car, I was struck with how so many of his ideas have the same goals of asset-building and highlight building social capital to realize a lot more goals than you can as individuals. If I had a print version of the book, it would be easier to reference, but the in a broad sense, the way he defines "habits" is the sustainability. It's the underying assets that you need in order to continually use without depleting. And his definition of "effective" could be interpreted as developing. Anyway, just part of the long drive...nothing I could use in a paper, just interesting how many places I've been seeing the same ideas, at their very basic, since starting this semester.