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We often look back on the things we’ve just learned and assumed we knew them or believed them all along. The origin of certain emotional states is unavailable to us,
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The beliefs that carried us to initial success may be holding us back in our quest to go to the next level. People who believe they can succeed see opportunities
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We usually don’t know what kind of car we want until we see it parked in our neighbourhood. We don’t know what we want to do with our lives –
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The most important metric to track is your personal energy. You can maximise your personal energy by eating right, exercising regularly, avoiding unnecessary stress, getting enough sleep and having something
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Nearly every human action is in some way an expression of how we think about ourselves. Life’s two most important questions are “Why?” and “Why not?”, but the trick is
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It’s easier and more secure to stay broken the way we are than to choose a completely new path throwing new set of problems & challenges at us. Irrespective of
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Being smart is all about having the ability to go deeper and extract more abstract information from deluge of data that keeps inundating our senses on consistent basis. Life in
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It’s completely irrelevant that in how many areas you’re average or below average. What matters is your ability to identify that one area in which you are well above average.
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The human brain is an ‘anticipation machine’, and ‘creating the possible future’ is the most important thing it does. Our brains are continuously making predictions about the immediate, local, personal future
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Easterlin paradox: Once our basic needs have been met, incremental financial gain contributes almost nothing to happiness. Thinking about your purchase in a focused way makes you happy. For
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We don’t always know the “whys” behind our own behaviour, yet there is so much certainty in the way we pretend to know everything. “Reasons” are the verbal explanations