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Focus:
Clarity begins with realizing what we do not notice – and don’t notice that we don’t notice.
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75 |
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Focus:
Smart risks are based on wide and voracious data-gathering checked against a gut sense; dumb decisions are built from too narrow a base of inputs.
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75 |
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Focus:
Candid feedback from those you trust and respect creates a source of self-awareness, one that can help guard against skewered information or questionable assumptions.
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75 |
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Focus:
Attention regulates emotion.
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76 |
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Focus:
…self-awareness is built into regulating our own emotions, as well as sensing what others feel.
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77 |
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Focus:
High self-control predicts not just better grades, but also a good emotional adjustment, better interpersonal skills, a sense of security, and adaptability.
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81 |
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Focus:
Anything we can do to increase children’s capacity for cognitive control will help them throughout life.
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81 |
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Focus:
The power to direct our focus onto one thing and ignore others lies at the core of willpower.
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86 |
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Focus:
The greater the demands on our attention, it seems, the poorer we get at resisting temptations.
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88 |
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Focus:
The greater the charge, the stronger the impulse – and the more likely it is that our more sober-minded prefrontal lobes will be hijacked by our desires.
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88 |
