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How to make rational decisions
The role of biases in decision-making
The impact of social norms on decision-making
You always have a choice.
You don't always get to choose what happens to you or around you. But you always get to choose your position or attitude related to what's happened to you.
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Your feelings are caused by your thoughts...
Not by your circumstances.
Circumstances are neutral. However, we can decide what meaning to give to our circumstances. And that will determine how we feel.
Whatever we think creates our feelings. Our feelings determine how we show up. How we show up creates our results, which becomes...
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Freedom is not free
Freedom comes at the cost of personal responsibility. Without personal responsibility, you won't have freedom.
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Fear will keep you from living
It's usually fear that keeps you from doing things that you want to do. It's not that you can't to the thing. It's that you won't.
Our brains prevent us from doing things. This is because our brains have two basic jobs: to keep us safe and to prove us right.
If it finds anything that ...
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There is no perfect time to do anything
The things that provide upgrades or improvements to our lives are new to us.
This means we haven't experienced it yet, so we will be uncomfortable with it.
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You Always Have a Choice
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But while you may not be to blame for your situation, you are always responsible for figur...
1. You always have a choice
Finding faults and excuses to stay away from success is our own choice. Social and economic conditions can inhibit us from success till a point but after that we have the choice to be successful. If life gives you lemon, you choose if you want to cry over it or make lemonade out of it.
You Are Going To be OK - Day 115
"Don't lament this and don't get agitated." - Marcus AureliusĀ
- There's that feeling we get when something happens. It's all over now. All is lost. What follows are complaints and pity and misery - the impotent struggle against something that's already occurred. Why bo...
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