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If we think more about failing at what we’re doing than about doing it, we will not succeed.
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…when we learn that a memory is wrong, we feel stunned, disoriented, as if the ground under us has shifted. It has made us rethink our own role in the story.
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All of us do grow and mature, but generally not as much as we think.
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Successful partners extend to each other the same self-forgiving ways of thinking we extend to ourselves: They forgive each other’s missteps as being due to the situation but give each other credit for the thoughtful and loving things they do.
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You keep the message separate from the messenger. In this way, we might learn how to change our minds before our brains freeze our thoughts into consistent patterns.
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Understanding how dissonance operates helps us rethink our own muddles, and it’s also a useful skill for helping friends and relatives get out of theirs.
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Dissonance may be hardwired, but how we think about mistakes is not.
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…to succeed in the Infinite Game of business, we have to stop thinking about who wins or who’s the best and start thinking about how to build organizations that are strong enough and healthy enough to stay in the game for many generations to come.
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Finite thinkers do not appreciate that an investment in people will ultimately benefit the company, the customer and their investments.
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It is the weak leader who takes the expedient route. The ones who think they have all the answers to try to control all the variables.
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