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If we practice negative thinking and creative incompetence, and thereby avoid taking the final step, the possibility of human survival would be enhanced.
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149 |
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Even when experiments produce a negative result, those failures prove instructive and can influence the strategy.
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63 |
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Negativity focuses us on a narrow range – what’s upsetting us… focusing on the negatives in experience offers a recipe for depression.
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170 |
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…the biggest problem is that the longer you spend working on something… the more attached you’ll become, and the less likely you’ll be to take negative test results to heart.
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…for a marriage to survive, the ratio of positive to negative emotion in a given encounter has to be at least five to one.
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The best bosses do more than charge up people, and recruit and breed energizers. They eliminate the negative…
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We are all trying to defend ourselves against how we imagine other people are going to judge us. We get it in our heads that if we don’t stick to our original choice, that will reflect negatively on us.
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…goals have a dark side. They point to numerous negative consequences of goal setting, several of which interfere with rational quitting behavior.
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If you are in a situation that carries with it a negative expected value, by all means quit. But keep going when you have a positive expected value.
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When it comes to the worst things for our mental health, constant negativity is definitely one of them, especially if you are managing or leading people.
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