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While no one has total control over his or her life, most people have more control than they exert.
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Investing your time wisely requires that you prioritize what you do. If you don’t, leeches in the form of disagreeable people and insignificant projects will rob you of your time.
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Give yourself permission to get rid of what hinders you, whether they’re projects, people, or ideas.
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Business at its best is play. It is about deep thinking, imaginative thinking, thinking of what no one else has thought of. The people and organizations who can do this are the ones who get rich.
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People working together will not only help solve the problems… they will also solve the problem of worry, which is fundamentally caused by social disconnection.
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When people feel less alone, when they truly and deeply feel connected to a team, they worry much less and think creatively much more.
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How we organize physical space says a lot about how we think people behave; but how people behave is often a byproduct of how we set up physical space.
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Attention studies have shown that most people can thoughtfully consider only one thing at a time, and that multitasking dramatically degrades our ability to accomplish tasks requiring cognitive concentration.
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Shared consciousness is a carefully maintained set of centralized forums for bringing people together.
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When we urge people to ‘think outside of the box,’ we are generally asking them to discard mental models.
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