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Experiment with your deadlines
The proximity of a deadline can also activate different systems: the closer the deadline, the more your “doing” mindset is activated.
Change your deadlines to get into convergence, the doing mindset.
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The modern workplace revolves around sitting.
The seated posture reinforces the activation of a thinking mindset.
If you need to jumpstart your doing mindset, get moving. Stand up. Walk around your workspace. By getting up and moving, you get into a converging, action-oriented mode o...
Physical and mental distance influence the way you think about things. Distance engages the thinking system.
Your workplace environment is strongly associated with getting things done. In order to engage a thinking mindset, spend time working in another place. Change your environmen...
We have a ‘thinking’ system and a ‘doing’ system – and we’re generally only capable of using one at a time.
- Thinking requires Diverging(trying to come up with as many ideas as possible).
- Doing requires Converging (evaluating ideas and figure out which ones are best).
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Stop reacting to life and start responding to it.
If you want to really change, you need to start reframing your mindset. You’re not in control of everything that happens to you, but you are in control of how you respond to what happens to you.
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"There are risks and costs to a program of action. But they are far less than the long-range risks and costs of comfortable inaction."
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Walt Disney was a visionary, an accomplished businessman, and a creative mind that set the imagination free. And he did that not by letting every whim and fancy go wild, but by filtering ideas through a process to weed out the mediocre from the iconic.
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