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…feeling comfortable or dodging criticism should not be our measure of success… what really matters is succeeding.
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008 |
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…as our environment erupts with too many possibilities to plan for effectively, we must become comfortable sharing power.
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212 |
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By embracing our own opposites and getting comfortable with our contradictions, we build richer, deeper lives.
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028 |
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Pushing beyond our comfort zone is uncomfortable, but it’s the only means by which we can learn and grow, and ultimately perform better and experience deeper satisfaction.
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030 |
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Leaders not only manage change, they must be comfortable with it in their own lives.
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162 |
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The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on its owner the comforting delusion that he or she does not have any.
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057 |
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Parent blaming is a popular and convenient form of self-justification because it allows people to live less uncomfortably with their regrets and imperfections.
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104 |
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Becoming aware that we are in a state of dissonance can also help us make sharper, smarter, conscious choices instead of letting automatic, self-protective mechanisms resolve our discomfort in our favor.
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305 |
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Bankruptcy is so often an act of suicide. When we look back at the decisions that put once successful companies on a path to bankruptcy, we discover an uncomfortably high number of leaders who were obsessed with the finite game.
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193 |
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A confrontation that doesn’t need to happen, shouldn’t happen.
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205 |
