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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens. Weekly Lessons - 2. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes. There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. --Kenneth Olsen, President and Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation in 1977. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes.

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7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens

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  1. 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens Weekly Lessons - 2

  2. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home. --Kenneth Olsen, President and Founder of Digital Equipment Corporation in 1977.

  3. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value. --Marshal Ferdinand Foch, French Military Strategist and Future World War I Commander, in 1911.

  4. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes [Man will never reach the moon] regardless of all future scientific advances. --Dr. Lee De Forest, Inventor of the Audition Tube and Father of Radio, on February 25, 1967

  5. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes [Television] won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a plywood box every night. --Darryl F. Zanuck, Head of 20th Century-Fox, in 1946

  6. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes We don’t like their sound. Groups of guitars are on the way out. --DECCA Records in Rejecting the Beatles, in 1962

  7. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes For the majority of people, the use of tobacco has a beneficial effect. --Dr. Ian G. MacDonald, Los Angeles surgeon. As quoted in Newsweek, November 18, 1969

  8. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes The ‘telephone’ has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us. --Western Union Internal Memo, in 1876

  9. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes The earth is the center of the universe. --Ptolemy, The Great Egyptian Astronomer, in the Second Century.

  10. Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes Nothing of importance happened today. --Written by King George III of England on July 4, 1776

  11. Last Top 10 All-Time Stupid Quotes Everything that can be invented has been invented. --Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, in 1899

  12. Crazy Statements by Teens “No one in my family has ever gone to college. I’d be crazy to think I could make it.” “It’s no use. My step dad and I will never get along. We’re just too different.” “Being smart is a ‘white’ thing.” “My teacher is out to get me.” “She’s so pretty – I’ll bet she’s a jerk.” “You can’t get ahead in life unless you know the right people.” “Me? Thin? Are you kidding? My whole family is full of fat people.” “It’s impossible to get a good job around here ‘cause nobody wants to hire a teen.”

  13. What is a Paradigm? • The way we think about and see things; a mental map.

  14. Paradigm Shift

  15. Paradigm Shift

  16. Paradigm Shift

  17. Paradigm Shift

  18. Habits • Think of a time when you experienced a paradigm shift. Write a paragraph for each of the following questions: • What happened? • How did it affect you? • Why are paradigm shifts important?

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