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Your motivations – aren’t impersonal abstractions but powerfully reflect who you are and what you focus on.
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176 |
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…our customary focus on things temporal and material is the major cause of human misery, because it distracts us from attending to timeless, formless true reality.
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209 |
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Attending to pleasure is a reward in itself, but savoring also boosts your quotient of positive emotion, which in turn expands your focus and may confer health benefits…
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216 |
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When you focus on the shortcomings in your life, drag your feet, and belabor your bad habits and neuroses, you see nothing but your own misery.
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003 |
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For optimal creative performance, go for low or moderate time pressure as a general rule – punctuated by occasional periods of focused urgency.
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107 |
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This is how a manager creates psychological safety – by focusing on the work and what can be learned from it, rather than berating subordinates for errors.
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177 |
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Focusing on the abstraction of scarcity, downward spiral talk creates an unassailable story about the limits to what is possible, and tells us compellingly how things are going from bad to worse.
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108 |
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Even when you’re feeling shaky and new, even if you’re not sure if or how you will succeed, focus on what you can control and do the best with what you’ve got.
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030 |
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…no matter how ambitious you are, you’ll advance in your career more quickly if you focus on the job you have and gain a reputation for good work.
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229 |
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…you can make progress only by focusing forward and removing yourself from the constant concern for what has already happened.
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