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How to strengthen your willpower
How to overcome temptation and distractions
The role of motivation in willpower
The downsides of too much adapting
The downsides to always adapting, always flexible, always changing gears could lead to a lack of direction and commitment. In turn, a lack of direction could lead to failure.
We don’t want to entertain the possibility that it might fail. We just imagine that things are definitely going to work.
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“This might work” vs. “This is going to work”
It is probably better to say "this might work" when you start because you’ll be much more alert to take in signals, new information, tweak it, adjust it, adapt, or maybe just stop.
Think about your actions as experiments that generate information rather than definitive decisio...
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The modern workplace
In the last decades, organizations are increasingly becoming more global, complex, and demanding of workers’ time. In the always-on, always-connected work environment, boundaries are overlapping and combining.
If you can’t adapt, can’t see situations in versatile ways, can’t find me...
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Find a balance
There needs to be a balance between adapting and committing.
Committing–and concrete thinking–might be what’s needed in a strictly controlled environment where no new information is coming in. But, change is inevitable.The visionary, abstract thinking–
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Always adapting and never committing
If you’re always keeping your options open, you’re constantly second-guessing yourself and that makes you unhappy.
The moment we commit to something, we start being happier with whatever we decided on. This downside is only relevant when there is no new information coming in. A...
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Start with “why”
Why am I doing this? Ask yourself why until you understand your actions and decide how to reach your goal.
For instance, ask yourself why you are doing this job. If your answer is to get paid, then ask yourself, Why do I want higher pay? If the answer is so you can have a bet...
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Worrying Too Much About Other People
It’s easy to waste time worrying about other people, too. Your friends and loved ones mean a lot to you, and you want to spend time nurturing them.
But we also spend a lot of time fretting over problems that don’t matter in the long run. Those habits always lead to a dead end, because they...
The Possibility Of Loss
Just like we cannot over-speed indefinitely in a highway with traffic, we cannot keep our winning streak in trading going on forever.
We have to put the brakes (Stop Loss) to ensure we don’t go down with the ship in a sudden plunge. Trading is about probability and it is good to know that...
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must k
Quite often, we stop moving forward once we face difficulties. But the truth is that these are the moments we need to be in motion and keep going on, even if life sucks.
Everything you want in life is on the other side of consistency and moving on is always going to pay off, no mat...
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