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Executives consistently report that their hardest experiences, the stretches that most challenged them, were the most helpful.
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Communication is never an easy thing, even between people who have an enormous background of shared values and experience.
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Harvest a wide range of insights from your own experience. Think about all the talents an organization needs to succeed. Look for winners in each dimension.
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…the experiences we have during our formative years shape us into who we are, not just as individuals, but as a collective, too.
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…several studies show that we often evaluate the quality of meals, movies, and vacations not by the full experience but by certain moments, especially the end.
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When we experience awe, time slows down. It expands. We feel like we have more of it. And that sensation lifts our well-being.
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We have some experiences. We think them through. We develop a theory. And then finally we put two and two together. That’s the way learning works.
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Thin-slicing’ refers to the ability of our unconscious to find patterns in situations and behavior based on very narrow slices of experience.
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…our unconscious silently crunches all the data it can from the experiences we’ve had, the people we’ve met, the lessons we’ve learned, the books we’ve read, the movies we’ve seen, and so on, and it forms an opinion.
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Our first impressions are generated by our experiences and our environment, which means that we can change our first impressions – we can alter the way we thin-slice – by changing the experiences that comprise those impressions.
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