Better to Think About What We Can Done Better than Blaming Others

• We cannot control most of the outside events and circumstances including our past, the weather, natural disasters or freak accidents.

• We cannot control what other people say, think or feel about us.

• What we can control is what we think, say or do. We can...

• Become better at probing other people’s thinking. Ask questions. Simple ones are better. “Why” is the best.
• Slow down. Make sure you give yourself time to think.
• Probe yourself. Try and understand if you’re talking about something you really know ...

Thinking is the ultimate cognitive activity, consciously using our brain to make sense of the world around us and decide how to respond to it. Unconsciously our brain is still thinking and this is part of our cognitive process but is not what we normally call ‘thinking’.

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