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…unless you deliberately fight a habit – unless you find new routines – the pattern will unfold automatically.
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…once someone creates a new pattern, studies have demonstrated… [it] becomes as automatic as any other habit.
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The habits that matter most are the ones that, when they start to shift, dislodge and remake other patterns.
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Clarifying requires listening to people intently – though at a high level – listening for patterns rather than to every detail.
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…effective feedback isn’t about waiting until there’s a pattern, and it doesn’t get better with age.
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Great managers… define a talent as a ‘recurring pattern of thought, feeling or behavior that can be productively applied.’
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Any recurring patterns of behavior that can be productively applied are talents. The key to excellent performance… is finding the match between your talents and your role.
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There is nothing particularly special about talents. If talents are simply recurring patterns of thought, feeling or behavior, then talents are actually commonplace.
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Each person is different. Each person has a unique set of talents – a unique pattern of behaviors, passions and yearnings.
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What’s astonishing is that we can be unaware of even big, seemingly obvious patterns of behavior.
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