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You need to get good in order to get good things in your working life, and the craftsman mindset is focused on achieving exactly this goal.
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…it’s in honest, sometimes harsh feedback that you learn where to retrain your focus in order to continue to make progress.
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Missions are powerful because they focus your energy toward a useful goal, a crucial factor in loving what you do.
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It is difficult to escape the focus of our own attention – difficult to consider what it is we may not be considering – and this is one of the reasons why we so often mispredict our emotional responses to future events.
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…your ability to focus on this and suppress that is the key to controlling your experience and, ultimately, your well-being.
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…when you lose focus, your mind tends to fix on what could be wrong with your life instead of what’s right, putting you in a bad frame of mind.
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All day long, you focus on what seems most important – and suppress what doesn’t…
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…focusing on negative emotions, particularly when they don’t serve their primary purpose of promoting problem-solving, exacts a high cost: you spend a lot of time feeling crummy even if your life is pretty good.
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Even when you’re reeling from a severe blow… diverting your focus from your grief can boost your resilience.
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…like physical fitness, the mental sort that sustains the focused life can be cultivated.
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