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When a relationship with a mentor deteriorates, or irreconcilable differences with our superiors arise, we experience more than mere disillusionment; our images of possible futures also change.
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056 |
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We don’t find ourselves in a blinding flash of insight, and neither do we change overnight. We learn by doing, and each new experience is part answer and part question.
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161 |
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The most powerful way to help people recognize, feel, and believe in the long-term implications of their choices is to get out of their way and let them experience them firsthand.
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091 |
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…the gold standard for tactics for engaging personal motivation is direct experience. Let people feel, see, and touch things for themselves.
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092 |
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Getting people to create their own direct experience is a powerful way to help them connect to genuine human consequences and ultimately find more significance in vital behaviors.
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093 |
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…overweighting is never observed in choice from experience, and underweighting is common.
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331 |
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Intense regret is what you experience when you can most easily imagine yourself doing something other than what you did.
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346 |
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Memories are all we get to keep from our experience of living, and the only perspective that we can adopt as we think about our lives is therefore that of the remembering self.
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381 |
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What we learn from the past is to maximize the qualities of our future memories, not necessarily of our future experience.
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381 |
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It is only a slight exaggeration to say that happiness is the experience of spending time with people you love and who love you.
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