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How to win in life:
1 work hard
2 complain less
3 listen more
4 try, learn, grow
5 don't let people tell you it cant be done
6 make no excuses
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Germany Kent
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Don't ever stop believing in your own transformation. It is still happening even on days you may not realize it or feel like it.
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Lalah Delia
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Any fool can break something, criticise someone and tear things apart. It takes a far more skilled, wise and kind soul to build something, nurture someone, fix things and help others thrive over time.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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If we adopt the same collaborative mindset and practices that got to the moon and back, and that built the International Space Station, we can alleviate poverty—and do much more.
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Ron Garan (The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles)
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Once we attain self-awareness, we stop becoming the victims of worthless comparisons, identity clashes and, of course, idle mindsets that make further progress impossible.
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Prem Jagyasi
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Your words control your life, your progress, your results, even your mental and physical health. You cannot talk like a failure and expect to be successful.
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Germany Kent
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For them it’s not about immediate perfection. It’s about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: How You Can Fulfil Your Potential)
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A quantitative mindset, despite its nerdy aura, is in fact the Morally enlightened one, because it treats every human life as having equal value rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic.
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Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress)
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Every great athlete, artist and aspiring being has a great team to help them flourish and succeed - personally and professionally. Even the so-called 'solo star' has a strong supporting cast helping them shine, thrive and take flight.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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I believe that no matter what situation in life you find yourself, there is room for you to take control of little things, which ultimately adds up to big things.
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Lisa J. Shultz (Lighter Living: Declutter. Organize. Simplify.)
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Because it is possible to create — creating one’s self, willing to be one’s self, as well as creating in all the innumerable daily activities (and these are two phases of the same process) — one has anxiety. One would have no anxiety if there were no possibility whatever. Now creating, actualizing one’s possibilities, always involves negative as well as positive aspects. It always involves destroying the status quo, destroying old patterns within oneself, progressively destroying what one has clung to from childhood on, and creating new and original forms and ways of living. If one does not do this, one is refusing to grow, refusing to avail himself of his possibilities; one is shirking his responsibility to himself. Hence refusal to actualize one’s possibilities brings guilt toward one’s self. But creating also means destroying the status quo of one’s environment, breaking the old forms; it means producing something new and original in human relations as well as in cultural forms (e.g., the creativity of the artist). Thus every experience of creativity has its potentiality of aggression or denial toward other persons in one’s environment or established patterns within one’s self. To put the matter figuratively, in every experience of creativity something in the past is killed that something new in the present may be born. Hence, for Kierkegaard, guilt feeling is always a concomitant of anxiety: both are aspects of experiencing and actualizing possibility. The more creative the person, he held, the more anxiety and guilt are potentially present.
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Rollo May (The Meaning of Anxiety)
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The only way to be sure is to go out and test your ideas and programmes, and to realise that you will often be wrong. But that is not a bad thing. It leads to progress. This
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Matthew Syed (Black Box Thinking: Growth Mindset and the Secrets of High Performance)
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To truly grow, you have to be ready to leave the version of you behind that you once celebrated growing into.
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Mischaela Elkins
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it’s not about immediate perfection. It’s about learning something over time: confronting a challenge and making progress.
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)
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Work smartly, diligently and silently; One day your introduction will be "Google Me.
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Kayambila Mpulamasaka
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I’ve learned more from discomfort than I could ever have learned from pleasure.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Education is not the only area where an oppositional black mindset has been detrimental to social and economic progress. Black cultural attitudes toward work, authority, dress, sex, and violence have also proven counterproductive, inhibiting the development of the kind of human capital that has lead to socioeconomic advancement for other groups.
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Jason L. Riley (Please Stop Helping Us: How Liberals Make It Harder for Blacks to Succeed)
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Ending feudalism, ending slavery, enacting labor laws, winning universal suffrage, ending Jim Crow laws, overcoming much of the mindset and practice of patriarchy as it was entrenched in the ‘50s and ‘60s, bringing gay rights and liberation into the light of social policy and practice. Putting ecology on the political map. The left has a long lineage.
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Michael Albert
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There are two powerful fuels, two forces; motivation and inspiration. To be motivated you need to know what your motives are. Over time - and to sustain you through it - your motivation must become an inner energy; a 'motor' driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately... come what may, every day. Inspiration is an outer - worldly - energy that you breathe and draw in. It may come from many places, faces, spaces and stages - right across the ages. It is where nature, spirit, science, mind and time meet, dance, play and speak. It keeps you outward facing and life embracing. But you must be open-minded and open-hearted to first let it in and then let it out again. Together - blended, combined and re-entwined - motivation and inspiration bring connectivity, productivity, creativity and boundless possibilities that is not just 'self' serving but enriching to all humanity and societies...just as it should be.
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Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Without a deadline, your work is never over. The power of deadlines leads your work to completion. What is done poorly is better than what is 20% done perfectly assuming person operates on a progress-driven mindset. Then you can improve to make things less bad faster.
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Thomas Vato
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Adaptable companies foster a growth mindset, driving progress and innovation.
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
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The biggest thing holding you back is you. Start there.
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Hunter Post
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Comfort zones are overrated. When you embrace the unfamiliar and uncomfortable in all areas of life, your progress will start soaring.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Don’t get discouraged or compare yourself to people. Focus on improving yourself each day, slowly but surely.
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Francis Shenstone (The Explorer's Mindset: Unlock Health Happiness and Success the Fun Way)
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Finally, methods of control can be direct if a government is able to implement rewards and punishments based on behavior. Such a system treats people as reinforcement learning algorithms, training them to optimize the objective set by the state. The temptation for a government, particularly one with a top-down, engineering mind-set, is to reason as follows: it would be better if everyone behaved well, had a patriotic attitude, and contributed to the progress of the country; technology enables measurement of individual behavior, attitudes, and contributions; therefore, everyone will be better off if we set up a technology-based system of monitoring and control based on rewards and punishments.
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Stuart Russell (Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control)
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Recognizing your own progress is a huge part of feeling motivated to do more. Your brain is a great tool for your success. It is hard at work and automating the new things you are doing even when you are taking a break.
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Prince Akwarandu
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Malaria eradication requires a 100% mind-set of success. There are no 70% or 80% or 90% efforts that pass in malaria control and eradication. One single infected mosquito that escapes can go on to bring death to dozens of victims in its lifespan, lay more eggs and restart an outbreak that progresses from a few to dozens to hundreds.
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T.K. Naliaka
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A quantitative mindset, despite its nerdy aura, is in fact the morally enlightened one, because it treats every human life as having equal value rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic. And it holds out the hope that we might identify the causes of suffering and thereby know which measures are most likely to reduce it.
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Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress)
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Investing requires a substantial amount of effort, skill, and wisdom. However, it shouldn’t be laborious. Look at the trees in the forest - are any of them laboring? Are any of the trees in the forest hustling or grinding? No, the trees in the forest are not laboring, hustling or grinding. It’s a natural flow, a progressive accumulation. The trees in the forest are active, yes. But their activity is with calm, temperance, strategy, consistency and faith - not laborious. At Mayflower-Plymouth, we invest like the trees in the forest - with calm, temperance, strategy, consistency, and faith.
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Hendrith Vanlon Smith Jr.
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This is not an accident. Progressivism is a mindset that favors the use of aggressive government force to solve social problems. Prison is one of its main tools. Prison is the threat behind every progressive edict. If you don’t directly merit prison by violating a criminal statute, you can earn prison by interfering with a government agent enforcing progressive policies or by ignoring a court order to obey the law. A large number of prisoners are incarcerated either because they violated a progressive drug law or because their illegal drug habit drew them into a criminal lifestyle.
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James Ostrowski (Progressivism: A Primer on the Idea Destroying America)
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Color blindness has become a powerful weapon against progress for people of color, but as a denial mindset, it doesn’t do white people any favors, either. A person who avoids the realities of racism doesn’t build the crucial muscles for navigating cross-cultural tensions or recovering with grace from missteps. That person is less likely to listen deeply to unexpected ideas expressed by people from other cultures or to do the research on her own to learn about her blind spots. When that person then faces the inevitable uncomfortable racial reality—an offended co-worker, a presentation about racial disparity at a PTA meeting, her inadvertent use of a stereotype—she’s caught flat-footed. Denial leaves people ill-prepared to function or thrive in a diverse society. It makes people less effective at collaborating with colleagues, coaching kids’ sports teams, advocating for their neighborhoods, even chatting with acquaintances at social events.
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Heather McGhee (The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (One World Essentials))
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Everybody has something to do, but some people will always seek to detract and destruct others! However, always remember, how people perceive things depends on their knowledge, understanding and way of interpreting things, therefore, do not just be moved by the perception of people to abort your true mission on earth. One most important thing is the lesson to learn from people to shape your vision and to accomplish your mission distinctively! Always be vigilant! Always Stay focused! Live the dream!
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Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
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Losing means winning if you are resilient and persistent. Everything great now has its imperfect versions in the past.
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Thomas Vato
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Learn to operate in the duality of owning your brilliance and your imperfections
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Sope Agbelusi
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Comfort is the world’s greatest producer of anxiety. Because it’s a lie.
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Evan Thomsen (Don’t Chase The Dream Job, Build It: The unconventional guide to inventing your career and getting any job you want)
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there is dark.
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there is anti light.
these are not the same things.
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Nayyirah Waheed (Nejma)
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What you want to achieve. How you can go about achieving it. What timescale you set yourself. How you can measure your progress. How realistic your goal is.
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Library Mindset (The Art of Laziness: Overcome Procrastination & Improve Your Productivity)
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Life is not a race....Everyone can win, so stop going around in circles.
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Nanette Mathews
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Success is a steadily progress.
You can make steadily progress in all spheres of life.
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Lailah Gifty Akita (Think Great: Be Great! (Beautiful Quotes, #1))
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Change is automatic, but Growth is intentional.
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Izey Victoria Odiase (99 Quotes and Affirmations For Self-Love & Personal Development)
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It is not about perfection. It is about moving in the right direction.
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Daniella Land (All In: The Mindset of Fitness)
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The reason is not difficult to see: if we drop out when we hit problems, progress is scuppered, no matter how talented we are. If we interpret difficulties as indictments of who we are, rather than as pathways to progress, we will run a mile from failure. Grit, then, is strongly related to the Growth Mindset; it is about the way we conceptualise success and failure.
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Matthew Syed (Black Box Thinking: Growth Mindset and the Secrets of High Performance)
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Over the years, I have learned that if each country could understand the other’s history, culture, and viewpoint, and accept that there are some issues that the two countries will “agree to disagree”, there would be tremendous progress. I have come to really like the wise Chinese proverb “yi zhong qiu tong,” which means seeking common ground while accepting differences. This is precisely the mindset that both countries need.
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Kai-Fu Lee (My Journey into AI: The Story Behind the Man Who Helped Launch 5 A.I. Companies Worth $25 Billion)
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A quantitative mindset, despite its nerdy aura, is in fact the morally enlightened one, because it treats every human life as having equal value rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic
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Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress)
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The thing about anger though is, while it is an energy that creates movement when channelled positively, it can devolve into chaos when it isn’t managed well. I think that there is huge progress happening, but alongside it is a volatile undercurrent that we need to be very aware of. It doesn’t feel like the safest time to speak out if you’re going to say anything that might be a bit challenging, and that is a dangerous mindset for us to get into.
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Scarlett Curtis (Feminists Don't Wear Pink and Other Lies: Amazing Women on What the F-Word Means to Them)
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Just because there’s no one living on a planet does not mean it’s yours for the taking. Do you not see how dangerous that mindset is? Do you not think that treating the galaxy as if it is something to be endlessly used will always, always end in tragedy? You think you’ve broken the cycle. You haven’t. You’re in a less violent period of the exact same cycle, and you don’t see it. And the line of what you find to be justifiable cause is going to keep slipping and slipping until you end up right back where you started. You haven’t fixed anything. You put a stamp and a permit and a shiny coat of paint on an idea that has been fundamentally damaged from day one. You engaged in bloody theft and you called it progress, and no matter how much better you think you’ve made things, no matter how good your intentions are, that will always be the root of the GC. You cannot divorce any of what you do from that. Ever.
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Becky Chambers (The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4))
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A collectivist will always deny, belittle, and intimidate, but never truly research. Severe pathological narcissism (more precisely a mindset referred to in psychology as “magical thinking”) is the key to collectivism’s progression, survival, and continuance.
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Mikkel Clair Nissen (Manipulism and the Weapon of Guilt: Collectivism Exposed)
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If we could combine the teaching of the new scientific and technical achievements with equal emphasis on the interpersonal human relationships we could indeed make progress, but not if the new knowledge is conveyed to the student at the price of less and less interpersonal contact
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (Remembered Forever, On Grief And Grieving, Mindset Carol Dweck, The Art of Happiness 10th Anniversary 4 Books Collection Set)
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Because the cultures of politics and journalism are largely innocent of the scientific mindset, questions with massive consequences for life and death are answered by methods that we know lead to error, such as anecdotes, headlines, rhetoric, and what engineers call HiPPO (highest-paid person’s opinion).
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Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress)
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...in the fixed mindset, you don’t take control of your abilities and your motivation. You look for your talent to carry you through, and when it doesn’t, well then, what else could you have done? You are not a work in progress, you’re a finished product. And finished products have to protect themselves, lament, and blame. Everything but take charge.
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Carol S. Dweck (Mindset: The New Psychology of Success)
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Some people want you to grow — but only with them.
They’ll cheer for your progress as long as it keeps circling back to their world, keeps them at the center of your expanding life.
The moment your growth connects you to new people, new places, and new ideas beyond their reach, they grow restless.
Not because they hate your growth, but because they fear it might one day carry you somewhere they cannot follow.
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Sanjeev Himachali
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The confusion of inequality with poverty comes straight out of the lump fallacy—the mindset in which wealth is a finite resource, like an antelope carcass, which has to be divvied up in zero-sum fashion, so that if some people end up with more, others must have less. As we just saw, wealth is not like that: since the Industrial Revolution, it has expanded exponentially.7 That means that when the rich get richer, the poor can get richer, too.
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Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress)
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…the rising movement of romanticism, with its characteristic idealism, one that tended toward a black-and-white view of the world based on those ideas, preferred for different reasons that women remain untinged by “masculine” traits of learning. Famous romantic writers such as Lord Byron, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and William Hazlitt criticized the bluestockings. …and Hazlitt declared his 'utter aversion to Bluestockingism … I do not care a fig for any woman that knows even what an author means.' Because of the tremendous influence that romanticism gained over the cultural mind-set, the term bluestocking came to be a derogatory term applied to learned, pedantic women, particularly conservative ones. ... Furthermore, learned women did not fit in with the romantic notion of a damsel in distress waiting to be rescued by a knight in shining armor any more than they fit in with the antirevolutionary fear of progress.
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Karen Swallow Prior (Fierce Convictions: The Extraordinary Life of Hannah More—Poet, Reformer, Abolitionist)
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The cultural forces that help politically sustain both the militaristic and the corporate function of the Deep State, however, are growing more irrational and antiscience. A military tradition that glories in force and appeals to self-sacrifice is the polar opposite of the Enlightenment heritate of rationality, the search for peace, and a belief in the common destiny of mankind. The warrior-leader, like the witch doctor, ultimately appeals to irrational emotionalism; and the cultural psychology that produces the bravest and most loyal warriors is a mind-set that is usually hostile to the sort of free inquiry of which scientific progress depends. This dynamic is observable in Afghanistan: no outside power has been able to conquer and pacify that society for millennia because of the tenacity of its warrior spirit; yet the country has one of the highest illiteracy rates on earth and is barely out of the Bronze Age in social development. p 260
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Mike Lofgren (The Deep State: The Fall of the Constitution and the Rise of a Shadow Government)
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Seeing how journalistic habits and cognitive biases bring out the worst in each other, how can we soundly appraise the state of the world? The answer is to count. How many people are victims of violence as a proportion of the number of people alive? How many are sick, how many starving, how many poor, how many oppressed, how many illiterate, how many unhappy? And are those numbers going up or down? A quantitative mindset, despite its nerdy aura, is in fact the morally enlightened
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Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress)
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Imagine, for a moment, that you're trying to build a new habit. You've set a goal, charted a path, and are making progress. But then, an external event - a global pandemic, a personal loss, or a professional setback - throws you off course. It's easy to feel disheartened to let go of your goal. But "The Enchiridion" offers a different perspective: see the setback not as a barrier but as a test of your resolve. It's an opportunity to practice resilience, to strengthen your commitment, and to reaffirm your path.
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Michael Whiteclear (Stoicism for New Life: The Path to a Stoic Mindset for Emotional Resilience and Joy: Including 52 Practices and Rules for Daily Life - Philosophy of Marcus ... and Others (The Stoic Wisdom Book 1))
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Let’s have a closer look at Sue. Appearance-wise, Jerry’s mother was a dark dream with full lips and almond eyes; fashion-wise, she spared no expense but looked as conservative as all the rest; in terms of morals she was entirely conventional; in personality a flirt; in outlook a skeptic; in disposition a bleak and dire depressive; in political mind-set more progressive than most; in matters of sex, boldly forward, then discreetly withholding; she was mercurial at parties and dances (a charmer one night, a mute the next); in love a total slave, but as an object of a man’s desire, she was a merciless and cunning manipulator. If her kindness was subject to moods, she had her table manners down cold, and her telephone etiquette was impeccable.
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Joshua Ferris (A Calling for Charlie Barnes)
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Seeing how journalistic habits and cognitive biases bring out the worst in each other, how can we soundly appraise the state of the world? The answer is to count. How many people are victims of violence as a proportion of the number of people alive? How many are sick, how many starving, how many poor, how many oppressed, how many illiterate, how many unhappy? And are those numbers going up or down? A quantitative mindset, despite its nerdy aura, is in fact the morally enlightened one, because it treats every human life as having equal value rather than privileging the people who are closest to us or most photogenic. And it holds out the hope that we might identify the causes of suffering and thereby know which measures are most likely to reduce
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Steven Pinker (Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress)
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They all succeed at changing both their mindset (the meaning-making system that shapes thoughts and feelings) and their behavior; rather than changing only mindset or behavior, and hoping the other will eventually follow. • They all become keen and focused observers of their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, and they learn to use these as information. They see the agenda that is driving them, not just the agenda they are driving. • Changes to their mindsets are always in the direction of seeing and feeling more possibilities: Spaces people had previously thought they could not or should not enter (because they were out of reach or too dangerous) are now fully accessible. • They take focused risks and build a new set of muscles and metrics around assumptions based on actual, rather than imagined, data about the consequences of their new actions. Their anxiety around the initial adaptive challenge is reduced, if not eliminated, while their experiences of pleasure significantly increase. • They experience increased mastery, more options, wider control, and greater degrees of freedom. They make progress on, or even accomplish, their column 1 commitment, and, more often than not, their accomplishments extend considerably beyond the initial aspiration. Because they have developed new mental capabilities—not just a new solution to a single problem—they can bring these capabilities to other challenges and other venues, in their work and in their personal lives.
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Robert Kegan (Immunity to Change: How to Overcome It and Unlock the Potential in Yourself and Your Organization (Leadership for the Common Good))
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crucial that we acknowledge two cardinal truths. First, whining and complaining about unfavorable conditions does nothing to resolve them. Second, it can too easily introduce a host of negative emotions that result in further despair and disappointment. Maintaining a positive mindset is pivotal to facing adversity with courage. Each morning, reflect on things that have gone right for you. Each afternoon, think about everything you have for which to be thankful. Each evening, before you go to bed, contemplate the small victories you enjoyed throughout the day. Practice gratitude daily. Habit #5: Build a tolerance for change. Mental toughness requires that you be flexible to your circumstances. When things go wrong, you must be able to adapt in order to act with purpose. Most of us dread change. We enjoy predictability because it reduces uncertainty. Fear of uncertainty is one of the chief impediments to taking purposeful action. Building this habit entails leaving your comfort zone. It calls for actively seeking changes that you can incorporate into your life. The upside is that doing so will desensitize you to changing circumstances, increasing your tolerance for them. As your tolerance increases, your fear will naturally erode. The great thing about habit development is that you can advance at your own pace. Again, it’s best to start with small steps and progress slowly. But each of us is different with regard to what “small” and “slowly” mean. Design a plan that aligns with your existing routines and caters to your available time, attention, and energy. EXERCISE #6 Write down three habits you’d like to develop. Next to each one, write down
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Damon Zahariades (The Mental Toughness Handbook: A Step-By-Step Guide to Facing Life's Challenges, Managing Negative Emotions, and Overcoming Adversity with Courage and Poise)
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The word 'spirit' comes from the Latin root 'spirare' meaning "to breathe", which became the word 'spiritus' meaning "breath". Through Anglo-Norman French, the word became the 'spirit' we know today as "the non-physical part of a person that is the seat of emotions and character; the soul".
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Upon pondering, one could definitely come to the conclusion that we must breathe to live and we live because we breathe. Therefore, the spirit is life itself. It is vitality [...] The spirit is not so much our consciousness as it is our very will to live. With that, it is simply the Will itself. [...] the Will is the spirit of motivation.; of progress; of creativity; of life itself. This spirit has it's own semblance of strength, i.e. it is capable of being "broken" or "uplifted".
What has it been called when someone relinquishes their will to live? Was it, "give up the ghost"? That is a strange way of putting it, to say the least. What is the last thing we will ever do? We will exhale our final breath, thus giving up the ghost; commending the spirit unto Death. The spirit is real. It is a powerful emotional state in which positivity and determination cause the individual (or even an entire group) to strive for victory and greatness. It is the essence of carnality. To be truly spiritual doesn't require belief or existence of an afterlife. For a Satanist, to be 'spiritual' is to have an uncanny force of will to succeed in life that is on par with his own impetus. It is having the mindset of "if one can fathom it, one can achieve it". Do not let anyone break your spirit. It is your very own sense of self, and therefore it is precious. Let your spirit push your Will forward towards what your heart desires, and not allow you to stagnate in wishful thinking and false hope.
John M. Penkal, Truly Satanic Volume I: Satanism
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John M. Penkal
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The future many pursue is only a step ahead:
Get to work. Get to lunch. Get to the end of the day. Get to the weekend. Pay the bills.
When you’re engaged in short-term goals, [you're] like a hamster on a wheel: expending lots of energy, but not making progress.
To exit the rat race of [one-step-ahead] day-to-day mindset requires a shift in your focus. Begin thinking much bigger and further out. [Instead of asking yourself, "what am I doing after this task?" ask yourself:] Where could you be in five years?
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Benjamin P. Hardy (Be Your Future Self Now: The Science of Intentional Transformation)
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This newly discovered concept also resolved another quandary. Scientific knowledge and spiritual beliefs had always seemed mutually exclusive. In other words, the two mindsets appeared contrary to one another. For the first time, I understood the two ideas were harmonious. If God is the natural order of life, then science is the study of God’s marvel. If God created Man, He did so through the process of evolution, which is a natural progression. Man is part of nature, not above it. Science is man’s feeble attempt to understand how God works.
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Brett Douglas (American Drug Addict: A Memoir)
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To achieve long-lasting success, you need a resilient mindset and an unstoppable spirit.
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Felecia Etienne (Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women)
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We cannot aim for the stars, with our mind smashing rocks together.
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Abhijit Naskar (Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion)
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Life coaching is a transformative process that empowers individuals to believe in the realm of possibilities. Whether it is embarking on a weight loss journey, improving overall health, or making significant life changes, having a clear and focused mindset is crucial for effortless progress.
Through the powerful tools of life coaching, you can bid farewell to excuses and master your goals with unwavering determination. By nurturing a deep sense of self-worth, you will not only feel good about yourself but also witness a remarkable improvement in all your relationships. Embrace the opportunity to reignite your passion for living and experience a renewed sense of vitality.
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Trusted Coaching Aylesbury
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The essence of personal growth lies in the interconnected principles of staying motivated, cultivating happiness, and committing to ongoing self-improvement. Motivation, the fuel for progress, thrives on a mindset that seeks inspiration in challenges, transforming adversity into stepping stones for growth. Happiness, the ultimate destination, blooms when your actions align with your authentic self, fostering a sense of fulfillment. To be better and stronger requires a dedication to continual learning, resilience in the face of setbacks, and the wisdom to recognize and avoid toxic influences, whether in personal relationships or political spheres, ensuring a journey marked by positive transformation and genuine well-being.
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James William Steven Parker
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simply pausing and asking, “What’s the right way to solve this, ideally?” When I feel frustrated by a lack of progress, I often find that’s enough to put me in a more exploratory mindset.
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Caroline Webb (How To Have A Good Day: The Essential Toolkit for a Productive Day at Work and Beyond)
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Be gentle. Be patient. Be loving. This is a no-shame game here. The more compassionate you can be toward yourself, the easier the process and the more significant the growth and progress will be. This progress will be easier to remember and reflect on if you write it down.
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Kerri Richardson (From Clutter to Clarity: Clean Up Your Mindset to Clear Out Your Clutter)
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reason we procrastinate is that the task we set out to finish is simply too big. Even if logically it doesn’t seem big at all, it might be emotionally huge. And while you might think the fear of failure is what halts your progress, it’s more likely the fear of success. You may feel that as long as you keep yourself small and in check, everyone’s expectations of you will remain low, and you won’t need to grow since you’re safe. The bottom line is if it feels too big, it is too big.
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Kerri Richardson (From Clutter to Clarity: Clean Up Your Mindset to Clear Out Your Clutter)
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A reason we procrastinate is that the task we set out to finish is simply too big. Even if logically it doesn’t seem big at all, it might be emotionally huge. And while you might think the fear of failure is what halts your progress, it’s more likely the fear of success. You may feel that as long as you keep yourself small and in check, everyone’s expectations of you will remain low, and you won’t need to grow since you’re safe. The bottom line is if it feels too big, it is too big.
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Kerri Richardson (From Clutter to Clarity: Clean Up Your Mindset to Clear Out Your Clutter)
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you struggle to make progress or find yourself fighting against your best interests, it is likely because you’re challenging your inner critic. This critic is really good at convincing you to stay in your lane and leave things as they are. When the critic rears her head, you’ll need your fiery, trailblazing, warrior self to step up and take charge. You need to show her the way with love and compassion.
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Kerri Richardson (From Clutter to Clarity: Clean Up Your Mindset to Clear Out Your Clutter)
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Environment and Development (The Sonnet)
Environment is not more important than development,
Development is not more important than environment.
Since we no longer live in the wilderness as animals,
We must make both work together in agreement.
Why do we need to wipe out forests and lakes,
To lay the foundation for growth and prosperity!
With our achievements in science and tech,
We can build modern cities nestled in greenery.
Unfortunately, once the green of dollar starts rolling in,
Green of nature goes out of the window.
The real problem is the mindset of profits over people,
It has nothing to do with our desire to grow.
Let us find harmony between concrete and nature.
Without harming earth, let us build green skyscrapers.
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Abhijit Naskar (Giants in Jeans: 100 Sonnets of United Earth)
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Anthony Lee Zhang, a professor at the University of Chicago, once tweeted, “As resources get cheaper, we find progressively dumber uses of them.” Things like artificial intelligence, autonomous vehicles, 3D printing, virtual reality, and potential innovations like quantum computing will of course change how we interact with the world. But we have gotten very good at taking raw materials out of the earth and making things out of them. However, the cost of repairing things (labor) has skyrocketed, hence the “I’ll buy cheap things because they’re cheap rather than repairing those I already have” mindset.
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Kyla Scanlon (In This Economy?: How Money & Markets Really Work)
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Embrace the mindset of 'Be, Do, Have' and break free from limitations. Go for it and create the life you want! Seize the opportunities that come your way.
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Felecia Etienne (Overcoming Mediocrity: Limitless Women)
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Many times, we need to make friends with growth-minded people, including an accountability partner, an organized peer, and a mentor. These 'partners in progress' will help you achieve success by discussing and taking action towards your goals while holding each other accountable.
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Asuni LadyZeal
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Each time you think, aim to create a positive mindset. The power of the mind can enable dreams to be made manifest. Let positivity be your brand, and you will experience all-around progress.
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Gift Gugu Mona (365 Motivational Life Lessons)
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Our thoughts wield a profound influence over the course of our lives, shaping our perceptions, attitudes, and actions in profound ways. The patterns of our thinking not only dictate how we interpret and respond to the world around us but also play a significant role in determining our emotional well-being and overall quality of life. Positive and constructive thoughts have the power to inspire us, motivate us, and propel us toward our goals, while negative and destructive thoughts can hinder our progress, breed self-doubt, and sabotage our potential for growth. Through mindfulness and self-awareness, we can learn to harness the power of our thoughts, cultivating a mindset that fosters resilience, gratitude, and optimism. In doing so, we empower ourselves to navigate life's challenges with greater clarity, purpose, and inner peace.
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Daniela Carlos
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To enhance your performance, it is crucial to identify the factor(s) hindering your progress.
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Asuni LadyZeal
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To elevate performance, the first step is to pinpoint the factor(s) impeding progress.
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Asuni LadyZeal
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Each time you think, aim to create a positive mindset. The power of the mind can enable dreams to be made manifest. Let positivity be your brand and you will experience all-round progress.
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Gift Gugu Mona (365 Motivational Life Lessons)
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1. I’m not stuck unless I stop. Action Step: Commit to progress. 2. Christ is in me. I am enough. Action Step: Accept your Self. 3. With God there’s always a way, and by faith I will find it. Action Step: Focus on possibility. 4. God is not against me, but he’s in it with me, working through me, fighting for me. Action Step: Walk in confidence. 5. My joy is my job. Action Step: Own your emotions. 6. God has given me everything I need for the season I’m in. Action Step: Embrace your now.
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Steven Furtick (Do the New You: 6 Mindsets to Become Who You Were Created to Be)
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It wasn't the colours, but the mindsets of the Egyptians that made them popular in previous and later generations.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo
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Sometimes we ought to follow our instincts, or intuition and allow our imagination to take its role of leading us to freedom.
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Mwanandeke Kindembo (Destiny of Liberty)
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Emptying yourself of your best work isn’t just about checking off tasks on your to-do list; it’s about making steady, critical progress each day on the projects that matter, in all areas of life. Embracing work with this mind-set will not only increase your chances of tackling your goals, but will also make it all more gratifying.
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Todd Henry (Die Empty: Unleash Your Best Work Every Day)
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Stop waiting for the perfect moment or the perfect plan. Progress begins with action, no matter how small.
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Jen Alvares
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Positive progress begins and ends with the right attitude. Knowing that things can work out in the end when you take positive steps toward being your best self will put you in a better mindset to get what you want within the organization.
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Lauren Simmons (Make Money Move: A Guide to Financial Wellness)
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When so much of online abuse is driven by a failure to empathize with someone on the other side of the screen, turning those who are abusive online into some unknowable, unstoppable force of nature is a damaging mind-set. If we don’t try to understand them on a human, personal level, then we are moving forward in the dark. By dubbing them “those people,” we are also explicitly setting ourselves apart as if we aren’t one of them and thus can’t be part of the problem. Therein lies the most common trap we fall into when trying to make the internet a safer place: framing it as a war of good people versus bad people instead of looking at acceptable and unacceptable ways to treat each other. “Good people” get off the hook for doing bad things, while “bad people” aren’t considered worth understanding or empathizing with and aren’t encouraged to progress, evolve, and do better.
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Zoe Quinn (Crash Override: How Gamergate (Nearly) Destroyed My Life, and How We Can Win the Fight Against Online Hate)
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Surround yourself with positivity and tap into the power of affirmations! They can help shift your mindset and unlock your inner potential.
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Felecia Etienne
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Progress is a mindset before it’s a result
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Asya Luedke
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Developing an action-to-momentum mindset is important. Even when we can’t see the finish line it is important to take incremental steps toward our goals. It is in this progress we can eventually see the results we seek.
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Christina Kumar (Take Massive Action: Toward Your Dreams)
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For the people who worked on those programs — the astronauts, yes, and the breakthrough scientists, yes, but also the thousands upon thousands of everyday engineers, mathematicians, doctors, lab grunts, and data hounds whose names and stories are lost to us — these were not the futures they were chasing. They’d been sold on a vision of discovery and progress accessible to everyone. A global mindset. An enlightened humanity. Instead, they found that dream inextricably, cripplingly anchored to the very founts of nationalistic myopia and materialistic greed that said dream was antithetical to. I imagine many despaired at this reality, and perhaps lost heart.
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Becky Chambers
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Why is It called breaKing news cause it might break your heart or mIndset
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efiba progress
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Finished ought to be an F-word for all of us. We are all works in progress. Each day presents an opportunity to learn more, do more, be more, grow more in our lives and careers. Keeping your career in permanent beta forces you to acknowledge that you have bugs, that there’s new development to do on yourself, that you will need to adapt and evolve. But it’s still a mind-set brimming with optimism because it celebrates the fact that you have the power to improve yourself and, as important, improve the world around you.
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Anonymous
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It’s easy to play the victim card (all of us have done this), but this mindset is one of the greatest obstacles to progress and growth.
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Mensah Oteh (Wisdom Keys In Words: A collection of the Inspirational words that will change your life)
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The "No Excuses" Mindset is an investment in yourself, allowing you to turn your excuses for failure into purposes for progress. The shallowness of your previous failures has become a deep well of recourses for success.
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Farshad Asl (The "No Excuses" Mindset: A Life of Purpose, Passion, and Clarity)
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*Various problem-solving instead of excuse-making mindsets: Pre-cooking a week of chicken on Sunday is trivially easy to do. Put them in Tupperware or Ziplock bags. This is trivial to do. No matter how busy you are, it’s really very possible to operationalize eating at least two meals a day that you made, at about one-tenth the cost of what you’d pay out.
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Sebastian Marshall (PROGRESSION)
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Most people think they’re just marvelously terrific, and who cares if they’re on time? They’re special and lovely. The mindset shift to the opposite is powerful. No luxury. No preening. No bombast. Just competence. Mere competence.
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Sebastian Marshall (PROGRESSION)
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The more excuses you make, the less progress you make!
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Nicky Verd
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Practicing daily mindset journaling brings progression, and progression brings the manifestation!
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Jaclyn Nicole Johnston