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Impressed with the merits of their own case, people usually pay too little attention to ways of advancing their case by taking care of interests on the other side.
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To overcome the shortsightedness that results from looking too narrowly at one’s immediate self-interest, you will want to put yourself in their shoes.
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The greater your willingness to break off negotiations, the more forcefully you can present your interests and the basis on which you believe an agreement should be reached.
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If we suspect our leaders are bending the truth to favor their own interests, then our subconscious mind prefers we don’t climb into a foxhole with them.
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It is the group of people with whom we find common interest and common cause that we turn to for support.
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Sometimes hitting the midpoint – of a project, a semester, a life – numbs our interest and stalls our progress.
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The best bosses succeed because they keep chipping away at a huge pile of dull, interesting, fun, rewarding, trivial, frustrating, and often ridiculous chores.
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One of the goals for all of us should be to, as much as possible, maximize the diversification of interests, skills, and opportunities in each of our portfolios.
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As long as we feel capable of meeting the challenge, we report being highly motivated, extremely interested, and positively engaged by stressful situations.
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To participate wholeheartedly in something means to be self-motivated and self-directed, intensely interested and genuinely enthusiastic.
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