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“The perfect life is constant change because the opposite of change is stagnation, lack of growth.”

Thomas Sterner

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“The most powerful and dependable way of changing your experience of these situations is with a premeditated procedure. Creating a plan for how to deal with stressful situations and people before you’re actually confronted by them can drastically change how you experience those situations.”

Thomas Sterner

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“Your goals should inspire you, not serve as a reminder of what you have left to accomplish. Understanding all that is involved in reaching your goals frees you to experience the joy of achieving them.”

Thomas Sterner

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“Try to look at situations that normally stress you out as an opportunity to play the game.”

Thomas Sterner

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“As awareness of your thoughts increases, the opportunity to choose how you experience this moment also increases.”

Thomas Sterner

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“Your mind will create thoughts with or without your permission. It can be your master or your servant. Awareness offers you the opportunity to make that choice.”

Thomas Sterner

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“The more you care about someone, the more attention you pay—and the more attention you pay, the more you care. Attention interweaves with love.”

Daniel Goleman

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“Directing attention toward where it needs to go is a primal task of leadership. Talent here lies in the ability to shift attention to the right place at the right time, sensing trends and emerging realities and seizing opportunities.”

Daniel Goleman

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“And positivity, in turn, has great payoffs for performance, energizing us so we can focus better, think more flexibly, and persevere. Here’s a question: If everything worked out perfectly in your life, what would you be doing in ten years? That query invites us to dream a little, to consider what really matters to us and how we might guide our lives.”

Daniel Goleman

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“Another bottom line: Anything we can do to increase children’s capacity for cognitive control will help them throughout life.”

Daniel Goleman

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“All of this was foreseen way back in 1977 by the Nobel-winning economist Herbert Simon. Writing about the coming information-rich world, he warned that what information consumes is ‘the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.’”

Daniel Goleman

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“Emotional resilience comes down to how quickly we recover from upsets. People who are highly resilient—who bounce back right away—can have as much as thirty times more activation in the left prefrontal area than those who are less resilient. The good news: we can increase the strength of the amygdala-calming left prefrontal circuitry. ”

Daniel Goleman

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“The power to disengage our attention from one thing and move it to another is essential for well-being.”

Daniel Goleman

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“Every choice we make in life is an experiment. Every day offers fresh opportunities to find better decision-making frames.”

Charles Duhigg

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“In short, we need stretch *and* SMART goals. It doesn’t matter if you call them by those names. It’s not important if your proximal goals fulfill every SMART criterion. What matters is having a large ambition and a system for figuring out how to make it into a concrete and realistic plan.”

Charles Duhigg

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“There is a fine line between an ambition that helps people achieve something amazing and one that crushes morale. For a stretch goal to inspire, it often needs to be paired with something like the SMART system.”

Charles Duhigg

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“In the age of automation, knowing how to manage your focus is more critical than ever before.”

Charles Duhigg

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“In addition to having audacious ambitions and plans that are thorough, we still need, occasionally, to step outside the day-to-day and consider if we’re moving toward goals that make sense. We still need to think.”

Charles Duhigg

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“Great minds like Caro and Darwin didn’t deploy rituals to be weird; they did so because success in their work depended on their ability to go deep, again and again—there’s no way to win a Pulitzer Prize or conceive a grand theory without pushing your brain to the limit.”

Cal Newport

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“I propose an alternative to the Internet Sabbath. Instead of scheduling the occasional break *from distraction* so you can focus, you should instead schedule the occasional break *from focus* to give in to distraction.”

Cal Newport

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