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A healthy psychological immune system strikes a balance that allows us to feel good enough to cope with our situation but bad enough to do something about it.
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162 |
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Ignorance of our psychological immune systems causes us to mispredict the circumstances under which we will blame others, but it also causes us to mispredict the circumstances under which we will blame ourselves.
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178 |
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…the psychological immune system has a more difficult time manufacturing positive and credible views of inactions than of actions.
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179 |
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Because we do not realize that our psychological immune systems can rationalize an excess of courage more easily than an excess of cowardice, we hedge our bets when we should blunder forward.
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179 |
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Rather than fight the need for short-term rewards, you must hack your reward system to provide them.
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027 |
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Internal systems are the first things you neglect when you’re busy, which means they are a competitive advantage if you can value and enrich them over time.
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145 |
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Self-employment is tough stuff in the best of times. And in the worst of times… you need grit, ingenuity, and a solid support system to make it through.
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050 |
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When companies fail, or fail to grow, it’s almost always because they don’t invest in the people, the systems, and the process they need.
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145 |
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Processes and systems, discipline and efficiency are needed to create a foundation before creative ideas can be implemented and entrepreneurial vision can be realized.
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161 |
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Whatever you do, don’t play it safe. Don’t do things the way they’ve always been done. Don’t try to fit the system. If you do what’s expected of you, you’ll never accomplish more than others expect.
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