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…one of the hallmarks of depression is that when depressed people think about future events, they cannot imagine liking them very much.

Reasoning by metaphor is an ingenious technique that allows us to remedy our weaknesses by capitalizing on our strengths – using things we can visualize to think, talk, and reason about things we can’t.

Explanation robs events of their emotional impact because it makes them seem likely and allows us to stop thinking about them.

…99 percent of the stuff of life – relationships, work, home, recreation – is the same no matter where you are, and once you settle in a place, no matter how salubrious, you don’t think about its climate very much.

…the awareness of true reality is an experience, not an idea, that in fact requires a ‘radical refusal of thoughts’ in favor of a simple state of attending to the moment.

…research shows that people who feel good are more adaptive in their thinking and better able to process complex information.

An important aspect of becoming an innovator is learning to act outside the box – to step outside your usual haunts, habits, and thinking patterns to embrace new possibilities.

When you expose yourself to new places, it helps you break free from your current thinking and envision new ideas.

If you want to be a doer – then it is essential that you not deplete your confidence and energy by overthinking your opportunities.

Prices are not a unilateral expression of what someone wants; they are about what someone thinks he can get. That’s necessarily a guesstimate. There is abundant evidence that such guesses can be manipulated.