May 2012
“Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into...”
– Arthur C. Clarke
“Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing...”
– William Shakespeare
Daydreaming Makes You Smarter →
EWU | 15 Styles of Distorted Thinking →
hit me.
Mind Reading: Without their saying so, you know what people are feeling and why they act the way they do. In particular, you are able to divine how people are feeling toward you. Mind reading depends on a process called projection. You imagine that people feel the same way you do and react to things the same way you do. Therefore, you don’t watch or listen carefully enough to...
“Success is the sum of small efforts, repeated day in and day out.”
– Robert Collier
“Talents are best nurtured in solitude, but character is best formed in the...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Shervin: Success Amnesia... →
shervster:
Practice success and failure amnesia. Forget that you succeeded. Forgive and forget that you failed. Learn from both and move on fast. Failure can be a patient teacher- it’s often a learnable event. Success can lead to signal and pattern blindness. The greatest achievers I have met are grounded…
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have...
helped me today.
“Virile agitur”
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“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”
– Dr. Seus
“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortunes; but great minds rise above...”
– Washington Irving
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Habits: Being Shy Is Just a Bad Habit, and You Can... →
Most shy people wish they were more confident, because shyness is ultimately a symptom of you being uncomfortable with who you are. You judge yourself based on other people’s standards and spend too much time in your own head, thinking of how best to act and react in any given situation.
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