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Fierce Conversations:
Do not trust your instincts. Obey them. What is, is. And what is must be acted upon.
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Fierce Conversations:
We know things. We sense things. We don’t know how or why we know things. We just do.
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167 |
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Fierce Conversations:
Most of us allow ourselves to be influenced or persuaded that the voice within us is mistaken, flawed, at best a distraction.
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Fierce Conversations:
How we enter our conversations is how we emerge from them. Holding back, not paying attention, disengaged, half-asleep. Or available, present, engaged, awake.
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Fierce Conversations:
Sometimes we don’t know what we think until we hear ourselves say it aloud.
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Fierce Conversations:
When we keep important thoughts private, our ability to learn and to make good decisions is reduced.
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170 |
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Fierce Conversations:
The most valuable thing any of us can do is find a way to say the things that can’t be said.
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Fierce Conversations:
It takes a certain fearlessness to make your private thoughts public.
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Fierce Conversations:
It’s not our thoughts or feelings that get us into trouble. It’s not our disclosures that cause distress. It’s our attachment to them, our belief that we are right.
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Fierce Conversations:
We are guaranteed to offend others when we present our impressions and interpretations as the truth.
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