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One of the most frustrating parts of honing a skill is getting stuck. Instead of continuing to improve, you start to stagnate. It feels as if you’ve reached the upper bound of your mental or physical capacities.
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Gaining momentum often involves backing up and navigating your way down a different road – even if it’s not the one you initially intended to travel.
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You can’t always find motivation by staring harder at the thing that isn’t working. Sometimes you can build momentum by taking a detour to a new destination.
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Psychologists find that achieving a sense of progress doesn’t require huge gains. Fuel can come from small wins.
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…it’s actually in turning outward to harness resources with and for others that we discover – and develop – our hidden potential.
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Teaching others can build our competence. But it’s coaching others that elevates our confidence. When we encourage others to overcome obstacles, it can help us find our own motivation.
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…we can marshal motivation by offering the encouragement to others that we need for ourselves.
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The responsibility of each generation is not to please our predecessors – it’s to improve conditions for our successors.
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Research demonstrates that when organizations have cultures that prize results above relationships, if they have a leader who puts people first, they actually achieve greater performance gains.
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…when teams are proactive, bringing many ideas and suggestions to the table, it [is] introverts who [lead] them to achieve greater things.
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