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If you’re in a position to do so, consider sender filters as a way of reclaiming some control over your time and attention.
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…send fewer e-mails and ignore those that aren’t easy to process – and by doing so [you] will significantly weaken the grip your inbox maintains over your time and attention.
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People pay closer attention to the bad stuff, reflect on it more, remember it longer, and weigh it more heavily in assessing the person overall.
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Coaches are masters of shrinking the change. By pushing their teams to attain a sequence of ‘small, visible goals,’ they build momentum.
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We will struggle, we will fail, we will be knocked down – but throughout, we’ll get better, and we’ll succeed in the end.
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Failing is often the best way to learn, and because of that, early failure is a kind of necessary investment.
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…one of the subtle ways in which our environment acts on us is by reinforcing (or deterring) our habits.
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Reinforcement is the secret to getting past the first step of your long journey and on to the second, third, and hundredth steps.
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…reinforcement does require you to have a clear view of the destination, and it requires you to be savvy enough to reinforce the bright spot behaviors when they happen.
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…if you have the right people on the bus, the problem of how to motivate and manage people largely goes away.
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