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The ideal work schedule looks different for each of us, given the vast differences in people’s temperaments and life circumstances.
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230 |
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…innovative learning requires that you trust yourself, that you be self-directed rather than other-directed in both your life and your work.
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071 |
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Study, travel, people, work, play, reflection, all are sources of knowledge and understanding, but so, curiously, are mistakes.
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088 |
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Once we are invested in a belief and have justified its wisdom, changing our minds is literally hard work.
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029 |
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When people do a good deed, particularly when they do it on a whim or by chance, they will come to see the beneficiary of their generosity in a warmer light.
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039 |
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Evolutionary psychologists argue that ethnocentrism… aids survival by strengthening your bonds to your primary social groups and thus increasing your willingness to work, fight, and occasionally die for them.
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082 |
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It is a lesson for all ages: the importance of seeing mistakes not as personal failings to be denied or justified but as inevitable aspects of life that help us improve our work, make better decisions, grow, and grow up.
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310 |
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…when there is a Just Cause, a reason to come to work that is bigger than any particular win, our days take on more meaning and feel more fulfilling.
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033 |
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Too many of our cultures are filled with people working to protect their own interests and the interests of those above them before those of the people they are supposed to be serving.
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043 |
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An organization that has a false cause is not a bad company, it just means they may have a little more work to do.
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051 |
