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Fact: If you focus continuously on improving yourself, you will create more, and luckier, opportunities.
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…unless your failure involved a capital crime, you now have the opportunity to learn from your mistake, recover, and improve your approach to the next challenge.
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Success should not and cannot be measured just by financial metrics and sheer size; impact, quality, and fulfillment of purpose are as important.
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…a great mentor/counselor thinks about your bigger picture and best interests as much as specific, skill-based improvements.
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…making employees happy and fulfilled at their jobs is not as hard as it may seem. Part of getting people there is directly correlated with how well you develop and mentor them.
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Talking with each other, one to one, is human beings’ most powerful form of attunement.
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Attuning yourself to others – exiting your own perspective and entering theirs – is essential to moving others.
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People often find potential more interesting than accomplishment because it’s more uncertain, the researchers argue.
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…next time you’re selling yourself, don’t fixate only on what you achieved yesterday. Also emphasize the promise of what you could accomplish tomorrow.
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Listening without some degree of intimacy isn’t really listening. It’s passive and transactional rather than active and engaged.
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