The two-part solution presented in chapter three* is of course, find your voice and inspire others to find their voice. Covey introduces the voice choice diagram used for the remainder of the book and explains that everyone is presented two roads in life - finding your voice along the path to greatness or loosing your voice along the path to mediocrity.
Finding your voice and inspiring others to find their voice is using an inside-out sequential process with creative force to unleash human potential. Losing your voice is following you cultural software, an outside-in quick fix, which keeps others from finding and using their voice and straightjackets human potential. Covey challenges us to take the first path and discover & express your voice by understanding three birth-gifts, developing and using multiple intelligences, and cultivating vision, discipline, passion, and conscience.
Another choice is to expand your influence and increase your contribution by inspiring others to find their voice. This is also the basis for the 8th Habit Challenge which was presented in this chapter, to read, teach, live, and report the book's principles.
The chapter closes by reminding us that habits lie at the intersection of knowledge, attitude, and skill; and each dimension must be developed to form/practice a new habit.
Report Results
This chapter serves mainly as a conclusion to the introduction and preface to the remainder of the book, but also presents the 8th Habit Challenge. Obviously, I saw the merit of the challenge and understand how teaching is an effective learning strategy, so I started blogging about the previous chapters in the book and will continue to teach others and report my results after living the remaining chapters here.
I finished the first three chapters on January 21 and have been reading and living chapter four since then. I'll post my teach two reflection and results here soon. I am intrigued in learning more about the concepts Covey presents through the voice choice diagram.
 | *from Stephen Covey's The 8th Habit: From effectiveness to greatness as part of the 8th Habit Challenge |
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