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Belief

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If you take away people’s ability to judge themselves and others based on time, then it’s harder for beliefs about work to be used as a measure for performance.

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Adaptive change means that people’s underlying attitudes and beliefs change along with their behaviors.

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To really take in and process critical feedback, it must be delivered by someone who makes us feel safe and who we believe truly has our best interests at heart.

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We have vastly more control over how we experience what happens to us – and how we behave as a result – than we ordinarily believe.

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Employees are seven times more likely to be loyal to leaders they believe have high integrity… than to those that do not.

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Writing is the most profound way of codifying your thoughts, the best way of learning from yourself who you are and what you believe.

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So powerful is the need for consonance that when people are forced to look at disconfirming evidence, they will find a way to criticize, distort, or dismiss it so that they can maintain or even strengthen their existing belief.

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Once we are invested in a belief and have justified its wisdom, changing our minds is literally hard work.

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When people do a good deed, particularly when they do it on a whim or by chance, they will come to see the beneficiary of their generosity in a warmer light.

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Our convictions about who we are carry us through the day, and we are constantly interpreting the things that happen to us through the filter of those core beliefs.

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