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Everyone has huge creative capacities. The challenge is to develop them.
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003 |
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There is a primitive part of most of us, especially men – that rises up out of the depths when crossed, challenged, or demeaned.
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104 |
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That’s just the way we are: absolute-value challenged, cognitive misers who are addicted to comparisons.
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008 |
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When facts challenge our favored conclusion, we scrutinize them more carefully and subject them to more rigorous analysis.
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169 |
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Regardless of income, teens who spend far more time with their peers than their families end up focusing on significantly fewer of the challenging activities, from studying to sports, that really develop their abilities.
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111 |
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Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life.
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112 |
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…if you view challenges as an opportunity to learn and grow, you will perform better, enjoy yourself more, and find ways to gain from the experience.
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034 |
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If people feel capable, then they see difficult problems as positive challenges and opportunities to succeed.
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091 |
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By its very nature, meaningful work is hard; people often get the greatest satisfaction from overcoming, the most difficult challenges.
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177 |
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Whether you’re nine years old or sixty-five, the reality is that most of us aren’t strong enough to face all of life’s challenges on our own.
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025 |
