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Cultivating a growth mindset and embracing challenges
Developing adaptive thinking and problem-solving skills
Effective learning frameworks and approaches
Never say anything is “unbelievable”
When you say, “What an unbelievable performance!” all you’re really doing is placing something out of your own realm of possibility that’s actually already proven to lay inside it.
“Give others and yourself more credit. It just happened, you witnessed it, you just did it, believe it.”
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Don’t fall into the entitlement trap
Life doesn’t owe you a thing. Every person on this planet is facing some struggle. It may be mental, it may be physical, it may be one you can totally relate to or not at all.
Everyone has a bunch of demons locked in their closet and life offers little sympathy and he...
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Define success for yourself
The only way to not get dragged into a never-ending cycle of wanting more is to define success for yourself. What do you really want? If the answer is still money, that’s fine! But maybe you’d prefer being healthy and fit, having a happy family, or a thriving marriage.
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Seek joy, not happiness
- McConaughey’s next lesson addresses our often backward approach to finding happiness: “Happiness is an emotional response to an outcome. If I win, I will be happy, if I don’t, I won’t. It’s an if-then, cause-and-effect, quid-pro-quo standard that we cannot sustain because we immediately ...
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Make decisions you’ll be happy about tomorrow
Instead of making choices that’ll cost us tomorrow, we can also create outcomes that pay us back.
The concept of ROI — return on investment — can be applied anywhere. Whether it’s setting up the coffee maker and laying out your clothes the night before, preparing for a...
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Review your new skills before holding a discussion with managers
Maybe you finished your class just before that big job interview or performance review, or maybe it’s been a couple of months. Either way, it wouldn’t hurt to give yourself a refresher on what you actually did during the class so you can drop some impressive details in real-time.
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Step 1| Audit Yourself
You must first objectively examine your own habits and systems to figure out in what ways you can optimize most effectively.
You can keep a journal or open up a note on your phone and jot down what you are doing and how you’re feeling over the course of a day.
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