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Do You Have These 6 'Mindful' Skills? Or Are You Distracted?
Essential skills for filtering information
- Mindfulness: the awareness of context and of changes within that context.
- Discernment: the ability to recognize and anticipate the consequences of the patterns around you.
- Action: Having a bias for action and immediate implementation is how rapid learning occurs.
- Expectancy: The belief in your ability to seize or create a future outcome.
- Feedback: You shouldn’t and can’t avoid feedback if you want to learn.
- Adaptability: If you want to adjust to new norms, you’ll have to adapt to them.
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Expectancy Theory of Motivation
3 things must occur for a person to have high motivation for achieving their goals:
- You must believe you can do what it takes to achieve your goal.
- You must believe that you know how to achieve it (you have the proper methods).
- You must believe that the rewards of a particular goal are personally meaningful.
Keystone skills
Those half dozen skills which facilitate the development of other skills. They are foundational to living a life in alignment, to having confidence and clarity, and to becoming a powerful learner and leader.
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