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The value of hard work and persistence
How to stay focused on long-term goals
How to learn from failures and setbacks
Look for causes, not villains
When something goes wrong don’t look for an individual or a group to blame. Accept that bad things can happen without anyone intending them to. Instead spend your energy on understanding the multiple interacting causes, or system, that created the situation.
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Human beings have a strong dramatic instinct toward binary thinking, a basic urge to divide things into two distinct groups,
HANS ROSLING
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The gap instinct
The gap instinct describes our tendency to divide things into two distinct and often conflicting groups with an imagined gap in between them.
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721 reads
The world seems scarier than it is because what you hear about it has been selected—by your own attention filter or by the media
HANS ROSLING
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The Negativity Instinct
Our tendency to notice the bad more than the good (e.g. believing that things are getting worse when things are actually getting better).
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Update your knowledge
Some knowledge goes out of date quickly. Technology, countries, societies, cultures, and religions are constantly changing.
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The Blame Instinct
Our tendency to find a clear, simple reason for why something bad has happened.
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731 reads
Keep track of gradual improvements
A small change every year can translate to a huge change over time.
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We are often wrong about the world, people always tell us how bad it is and how bad it will be, blaming the new generations and technology. Use your brain, improve yourself, your knowledge and ideas, don't trust and don't absorb everything people say: TRUST FACTS.
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The Blame Instinct
The blame instinct describes our tendency to find a clear, simple reason for why something bad has happened.
- To control the blame instinct, resist finding a scapegoat. Look for causes, not villains. Accept that bad things can happen without anyone inte...
Unlearning Learned Helplessness
One can overcome learned helplessness by changing the attribution style, or the way one looks at the causes of events in one’s life.
- We tend to blame ourselves for the unpleasant situation and need to look towards external causes, instead of focusing on our perceived...
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