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…we have to be able to accept that what we believe we know about ourselves may not be true, have the courage to question our beliefs, and start from a place without pre existing assumptions.
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The truths we hide about ourselves and our creations stay secret because we bury them in layers of guilt and shame, of fear and self-loathing.
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It’s almost never the case the you’ll transform your personal psychology and manage your emotional and mental health long term with a single or even a handful of hacks.
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We own our behavior, and some of the time (hopefully often), the right behaviors lead to the outcomes we want.
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When we make it about the work rather than the goal, we find that outcomes improve.
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When we’re freed from the mythology that we control outcomes and asked instead to concentrate on behaviors, we have a powerful tool to fight against negativity and anxiety.
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Negative experiences with brands tend to overwhelm every other data point.
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Human beings are wired to remember and internalize negative experiences with vastly greater force than positive ones…
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The great strength that startups have is that they can uniquely focus all their energy on just one thing…
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If you become the default tool in a field or for a particular type of user, you can often maintain market leadership even if your competition produces a technically superior product.
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