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term

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phrase

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comprehensible

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linguists refer to as comprehensible input

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bombard

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though, that when we bombard our brains with too

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chore

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feels like such a chore to remember new words

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repetition

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you think and increasing repetition isn’t the best way

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anchoring

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Evidently, anchoring an image to a

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evidently

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Evidently, anchoring an image to

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rhyme

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might be, does apple rhyme with snapple

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numerous

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effective, as this activates numerous areas all over your

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lack

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errors reveal that they lack the talent to get

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wisdom

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that requires objectivity and wisdom, ask older adults for

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former

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are good at the former often struggle with the

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recall

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are better able to recall prior experiences

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ancestors

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much like its wild ancestors, who, in turn, weren’t

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acquired

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this capacity can be acquired and expanded

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literature

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After studying literature at the University of

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decline

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as a time of decline, or a time to

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urge

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encourage their children and urge them to continue learning

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defeated

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leave you depressed and defeated

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emerged

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until a few winners emerged

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immense

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hearts are put under immense strain because

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merely

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So if you were merely your thoughts and nothing

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dispute

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very upset during a dispute, try to take a

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praise

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they succeed in something, praise them for their efforts

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founder

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great example is the founder of KFC, Harlan Sanders

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funding

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the principle method of funding retirement – didn’t even exist

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promise

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Berggruen didn’t show much promise in his youth

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delicate

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away the sand with delicate brushes

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nature

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really matters is the nature of your successes

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entitled

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film from the duo, entitled Sausage Party, came out

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soil

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And if the soil is lacking in nutrients

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narrative

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has become the standard narrative

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defeat

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be losers forever: one defeat negates and devalues all

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cloud

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letting his childhood experiences cloud his parenting

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household

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The average low-income household in the United States

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anger

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the floor, he felt anger bubble up inside of

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prior

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better able to recall prior experiences

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crucial

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true or not is crucial, as research shows that

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intimate

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these relationships are strong, intimate and rewarding

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abuse

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include things like direct abuse, such as physical or

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initiative

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that patients lost their initiative and drive to act

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vulnerable

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Children are especially vulnerable to stress

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neat

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bit messier than this neat idea

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lowered

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their anger, which significantly lowered their risk of further

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poverty

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Poverty and joblessness skyrocketed, while

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examine

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your focus inward to examine emotions you’re experiencing or

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awareness

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because it increases your awareness of what you are

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possess

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All new parents possess a wealth of personal

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gems

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you’ve created a few gems

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compel

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the right track and compel you to keep trying

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subsequent

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about her breakdown and subsequent spiritual awakening

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enriched

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and her comedy are enriched, bringing her jokes to

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workaholic

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sense since as a workaholic she basically didn’t have

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esteem

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self-doubt, low self-esteem and procrastination

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surge

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you ever felt a surge in your ability to

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strains

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that they use different strains for different situations

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compulsion

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The compulsion to fulfill this desire

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innuendo

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adventure spiced with sexual innuendo

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hilarity

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sexuality with irreverence and hilarity

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exemplify

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These two guys exemplify the human wisdom to

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jeering

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Despite the jeering of the older athletes

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develop an immunity

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success, you need to develop an immunity to peer pressure

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teased

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Have you ever teased a friend just because

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presence

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one with an online presence

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mundane

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go back to their mundane office jobs

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to be doomed

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on projects that seem to be doomed to failure, but only

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innocuous

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the story of an innocuous office worker who is

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pan out

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a promotion that didn’t pan out, a relationship that went

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filthy

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cleaning off excrement, lugging filthy buckets, and being bossed

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buckets

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off excrement, lugging filthy buckets, and being bossed around

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excrement

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spent weeks cleaning off excrement, lugging filthy buckets, and

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endorse a bill

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to convince them to endorse a bill

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induces

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This plant induces a sort of spiritual

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indigenous people

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botanical used by the indigenous people of Amazonia

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ascetic

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advice is on the ascetic end of the spectrum

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abide by

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worker might need to abide by a low cholesterol diet

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endurance

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such incredible feats of endurance, Hof sits in an

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beetroot

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training session, she blends beetroot powder with hydrolyzed gelatin

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strenuous

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how to recover from strenuous activities

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morale

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morale is down, to make

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intimidation

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goal is inspiration, not intimidation

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nuts and bolts

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It’s nuts and bolts technical knowledge and insights

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hone your skills

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Hone your skills as a challenger by

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tactfully

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how to do this tactfully and effectively

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abandon

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and address flawed assumptions, abandon unproductive

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facilitate

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In order to facilitate growth, you’ll also need

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concrete steps

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like what are some concrete steps you can outline to

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incisive

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deeper and ask more incisive questions

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probe deeper

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some trust, you can probe deeper and ask more incisive

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intuit

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You’ll need to intuit how to calibrate your

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interrogation

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meeting should be an interrogation, though

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state-of-the-art

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that act like a state-of-the-art sat-nav system

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take on

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and responsibilities you’ll each take on

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explicit

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Do be explicit about what roles and

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ahead of time

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agenda for each meeting ahead of time

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go off the rails

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Too many mentoring relationships go off the rails when one person wants

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sustainable

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you’re laying out a sustainable plan

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rapport

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lays the foundation through rapport, care, and faith that

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aspirations

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This context includes their aspirations, abilities, and working conditions

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honed

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Revealer has a well-honed understanding of their mentee’s

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abstract

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has a slightly more abstract toolkit than the archaeologist’s

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hunch

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They have a hunch there will be a

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artifacts

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surface any priceless antique artifacts, they spend a lot

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persona

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about finding a mentorship persona that plays to your

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quarrel

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the reason for the quarrel

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stuffed

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nursing home, or pillboxes stuffed to the max

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cane

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to walk with a cane, which he hates

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curriculum

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in the typical school curriculum

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genetics

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is impacted by our genetics, our opportunities, and our

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impulses

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who can control their impulses will also be more

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scenery

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and rocks and diverse scenery all around you

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squirrel

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when they spot a squirrel or a cat

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diminished

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is ashamed of his diminished abilities

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instinct

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after dinner, our first instinct is to argue against

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compassion

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compassion

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conventions

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His disregard for legal conventions was so great, in

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suppress

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to argue against or suppress their feelings

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morally

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capitalist terms, there’s nothing morally wrong with envy

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appetite

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you have an insatiable appetite, you’ll eat until you’re

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humble

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rich also means being humble

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willpower

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takes a lot of willpower and discipline – and not

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craft

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She attends the optional craft and exercise classes and

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deprived

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Sleep-deprived people show 60% greater activation

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endured

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of other people who endured what you consider a

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attribute

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those cases, we don’t attribute failure to bad luck

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anguish

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a rejection of her anguish, rather than

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malicious

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and one type of malicious repetitive

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mindfulness

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experimental thinking or practicing mindfulness

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skepticism

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a healthy dose of skepticism to develop awareness about

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debugging

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to the fun part, debugging

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rumination

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it incessant thinking or rumination

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incessant

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Gaudet calls it incessant thinking or rumination

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evenly

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to work optimally and evenly

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consumerism

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you, like violence and consumerism in the media, or

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havoc

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input that can wreak havoc are conditioning, old thoughts

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better yet

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Better yet, you can train it

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byproducts

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identity from your brain’s byproducts, also

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asserts

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Gaudet asserts that the key to

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paramount

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Emotional intelligence is of paramount importance for a child’s

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indispensable

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as they serve as indispensable

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distort

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Strong emotions tend to distort your thinking, so you

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validation

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problem, she is seeking validation

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evokes

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express emotions, it also evokes them

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dampen

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its cause, you can dampen its power

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confided

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Because my best friend confided his marital problems to

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enhance

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If you want to enhance your self-awareness and

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prior to

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difficulty regulating anger even prior to their addiction

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sex offenders

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also found in adult sex offenders

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facial expressions

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to read other people’s facial expressions, deficiencies

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outperform

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a growth mindset consistently outperform those with

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prowess

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the business world and prowess on the tennis court

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conscientiousness

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show that lower childhood conscientiousness is correlated with obesity

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prone to

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Derek is extroverted and prone to taking big risks, regardless

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determinant

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determinant of lifetime happiness is

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overwhelmingly

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experiment showed that they overwhelmingly chose the terry cloth

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terry cloth

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mothers was wrapped in terry cloth while the other had

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ingrained

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illustrates just how deeply ingrained our

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longevity

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you are extending their longevity

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misconceptions

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some of the negative misconceptions about aging, in the

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on display

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Robertson, whose paintings are on display at the Smithsonian and

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objectivity

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a question that requires objectivity and wisdom, ask older

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bird’s eye view

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bird’s eye view of things

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primed to

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loss, they have been primed to believe

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memory lapses

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ages experience short-term memory lapses

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forgetfulness

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as a time of forgetfulness

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debunking

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Aging successfully depends on debunking the many myths about

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pros and cons

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stage of life has pros and cons

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gated community

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are driving into a gated community and you pass a

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blizzard

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blizzard, what would you do

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you are stranded

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asked questions like, imagine you are stranded on the side of

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accompany

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there are challenges that accompany aging, there are also

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nursing home

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Maybe you picture a nursing home, or pillboxes stuffed to

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taxing

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become too taxing

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entangled

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simply, financial calls are entangled with psychological factors

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converges

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of the entire collection – “converges upon the return of

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acquisitions

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Some acquisitions turn out to be

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amass

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How did Berggruen amass this impressive collection of

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watercolor

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he bought a small watercolor by an artist called

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sideline

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a journalist with a sideline in art criticism

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venture

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As the multi-billionaire venture capitalist Michael Moritz puts

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indefinitely

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success couldn’t be repeated indefinitely

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amassing a fortune

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in this blink is: Amassing a fortune is easier than keeping

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bankrupt

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and news spread of bankrupt investors leaping from office

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devour

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recognition that trying to devour everything will push you

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insatiable

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If you have an insatiable appetite, you’ll eat until

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dodgy

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in a string of dodgy deals

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afloat

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to keep the firm afloat during the financial crisis

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mimic

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Even if you mimic every career step of

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emulate

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all but impossible to emulate

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chores

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should be doing, like chores or paperwork

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dormant

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which was pretty much dormant during this period in

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stunt

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an optimal environment, it’ll stunt their growth

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remedy

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there is a simple remedy to the negative effects

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dependency

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Because of this ultra-dependency, babies are hardwired to

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undertaken

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a bit like we’ve undertaken a high-flying job

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compassionate

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most effective tools for compassionate parenting

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annoyance

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often interpret as an annoyance

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longing

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from the feelings of longing, jealousy or humiliation we

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flourish

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an optimal environment to flourish

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coax

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trying to argue and coax her into a different

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bloodstream

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certain hormones into our bloodstream in times of stress

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impressionable

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because they are more impressionable and less resilient

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pickle

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leaves us in a pickle

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averted

A

Crisis averted

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broad

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Focusing on broad patterns rather than specific

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essentials

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have enough money for essentials, let alone luxuries like

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steer

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this to try to steer yourself into more optimistic

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upbringing

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aspects of a child’s upbringing and skillset are just

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obstruct

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Finally, never underestimate or obstruct the power of play

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bloodthirsty

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surprised at the instinctual, bloodthirsty responses of their pets

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alumni

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graduation rates of KIPP alumni have doubled

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pervasive

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are personal, permanent and pervasive

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mortgages

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Even consumer debt like mortgages, car loans, and credit

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alienation

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with a sense of alienation

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adolescence

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do not end after adolescence: high ACE scores correlate

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considerate

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can grow into the considerate parents that we want

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flaws

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luck but to character flaws like laziness or shortsightedness

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sliver

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only experience a small sliver of that reality

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compiled

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50 years of data compiled by the Survey of

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sustenance

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everything – support, shelter and sustenance

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draining

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phase can be especially draining for the primary caregiver

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worldview

A

have a different financial worldview than a similarly wealthy

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overlooking

A

tricks smart people into overlooking the role of luck

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reckless

A

celebrate second-rate or reckless investors who got lucky

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put differently

A

Put differently, if your brother is

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extent to which

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hard to quantify the extent to which it’s responsible for one

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quantify

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but it’s hard to quantify the extent to which

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whereas

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utterly incapable of others, whereas people with a growth

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latter

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the people in the latter group continue growing throughout

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strive

A

Like Reeve, they strive to make the impossible

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abundant

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due to their more abundant resources, affluent families could

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sustained

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of indebtedness, and the sustained stress reaction caused by

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scheme

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new in the grand scheme of things

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fertile

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to provide open space, fertile soil, sun and water

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qualified

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which we’re not fully qualified

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associations

A

The associations we formed in this

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bullying

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likely to engage in bullying

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abruptly

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that, his behavior changed abruptly

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tuition

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spent on my college tuition

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strengthen

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need to build and strengthen that capacity as they

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orbit

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projected that it would orbit Mars 100 kilometers lower

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trivial

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mind-numbingly boring and trivial number coding task – i

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peers

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IQ advantage over their peers, this advantage wore off

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attitude

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combined with behavior and attitude modifications

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plain

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occurs when we ignore plain statistics in favor of

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notion

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is based on the notion that the most powerful

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welfare

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than into the company’s welfare

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severely

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negatively impact children’s lives severely, but how exactly does

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superiority

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his laurels, flaunting his superiority and putting more energy

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greenhorns

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crazy – it’s because we’re greenhorns

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unattainable

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but retirement remained an unattainable ideal for most American

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minted

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kingdom in today’s Turkey – minted his own coins

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gut decisions

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evidence failed to change gut decisions formed early on in

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ten-fold

A

S&P 500 increased ten-fold

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a long shot

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Playing the lottery is a long shot, but it beats the

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let alone

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enough money for essentials, let alone luxuries like vacations

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walks of life

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just come from different walks of life – they also learn profoundly

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plummeted

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be better than yesterday plummeted

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delve

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rates – you need to delve into the all-too

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squander

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themselves in debt or squander fortunes, you don’t need

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abolish

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It’s therefore necessary to abolish the controlling top-down

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abandoned

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answer this question, Adler abandoned the three-legged system

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out of the equation

A

often something important left out of the equation, however

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putting off

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instance, accommodating Flo by putting off her own desire to

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dawdling

A

her frustration at Flo’s dawdling, and that allowed her

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stroller

A

than ride in her stroller

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combative

A

was read in a combative way, pitting our will

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stoke

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of mental exploration will stoke her curiosity about the

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ceases to exist

A

disappears from it, it ceases to exist

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coddled

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or like we’ve excessively coddled our baby) but it’s

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dependent on

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are defenseless and totally dependent on us for everything – support

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icky

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grandma because of the “icky” vegetable soup she always

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deprecate

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tied to both parents – deprecate your partner-in-parenting

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nuclear family

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is raised in a nuclear family, or by parents who

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ditching

A

can start working toward ditching those negative overreactions and

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clingy

A

why a clingy baby is a healthy

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belly up

A

was about to go belly up

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flaunting

A

resting on his laurels, flaunting his superiority and putting

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deal with

A

but also helped them deal with obstacles later in life

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intrepid

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tend to be more intrepid and self-reliant than

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clammy

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fast heart rate, or clammy hands – developed via evolution

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self-reliant

A

be more intrepid and self-reliant than others with less

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imbue

A

These programs aimed to imbue students with “ethical” character

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forging your own path

A

may find that by forging your own path, you can achieve that

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rigorously

A

success is to test rigorously

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our visions of the future began to diverge

A

But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had

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eradicate

A

about how they can eradicate their faults and weaknesses

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truth be told

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Truth be told, this is the closest

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lasting success

A

able to bring about lasting success at IBM

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zest

A

does and feels), and “zest” (i.e., an energetic

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lessening

A

secure attachments and thus lessening the physiological effects of

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affirms

A

look for information that affirms our views and ignores

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Divergent thinking

A

Divergent thinking is a method used…

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in some respects

A

these stress reactions are in some respects ill-suited for the

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turn away

A

filled room, they don’t turn away like most of us

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embody

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called naturals at universities – embody this way of thinking

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acclaimed

A

she was already critically acclaimed; by 18, she held

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inflate

A

enormous airbags that would inflate around the rover, letting

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personality traits

A

found that of all personality traits, conscientiousness is the best

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rather than

A

Rather than finding fault in his

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co-workers

A

employees who supported their co-workers

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lost cause

A

believes he is a lost cause when it comes to

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dunk

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when he did not dunk every ball he touched

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overindulging

A

results in the parents overindulging their children, which in

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disprove

A

Finally, work to disprove your hypotheses, rather than

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drug abuse

A

such as smoking and drug abuse in adulthood

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dissect

A

it’s not enough to dissect past failures

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raw materials

A

Raw materials

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compelled to

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email, which we feel compelled to answer immediately

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in a row

A

for too many days in a row, I know I need

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cogs

A

you while allowing the cogs of your subconscious to

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disposition

A

to have a musical disposition, but must dedicate years

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subtle

A

was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that

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bury

A

fail at something, they bury their heads in the

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aptitude

A

they show a natural aptitude for – that practice certainly

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vague

A

us move beyond the vague intention

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stumbled

A

much of what I stumbled into by following my

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utterly

A

doing some things but utterly incapable of others, whereas

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breakthroughs

A

have achieved their incredible breakthroughs if their lives had

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flee

A

way to help us flee predators and survive in

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attentive

A

become more sensitive and attentive with their children, thereby

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adversity

A

every possible failure or adversity

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diligently

A

found highschoolers’ willingness to diligently focus on a mind

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affluent

A

their more abundant resources, affluent families could provide an

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perseverance

A

hard work, dedication and perseverance

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juvenile

A

can also contribute to juvenile delinquency

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incompetent

A

talented or stupid and incompetent, and will stay that

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superiors

A

As a result, their superiors evaluate them constantly: Are

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derive

A

that successful people often derive their success from being

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differentiate

A

body’s stress reactions don’t differentiate between the short-term

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facets

A

life in all its facets is in a constant

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laurels

A

started resting on his laurels, flaunting his superiority and

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simply put

A

Simply put, our mindset shapes our

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plagued by

A

Plagued by a fixed-mindset work

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relented

A

She only relented a few months later

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insurmountable

A

them as challenges, not insurmountable obstacles

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arises

A

Confidence that arises from past successes can

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dejected

A

The more dejected they are, the more

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come up with

A

The aim is to come up with as many ideas as…

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pace

A

goals at an accelerated pace, and live an extraordinary

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mindset

A

with an Industrial Age mindset, governed by a domineering

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lurking

A

monsters that might be lurking in corners, they focus

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poke

A

They poke around in it until

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commencement

A

you today at your commencement from one of the

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discard

A

They reconsider and discard strategies used in the

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consideration

A

instead of a serious consideration

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repercussions

A

Failure has dramatic repercussions for people with a

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breakthrough

A

you closer to that breakthrough concept

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fits of rage

A

caddy after another in fits of rage

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skeptical

A

We should be skeptical of our successes, too

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coherence

A

minds naturally use cognitive coherence; we construct complete mental

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defy

A

question: how do we defy gravity so that the

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halt

A

before coming to a halt on the Martian surface

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vomit

A

an airplane dubbed the “vomit comet,” which replicates zero

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justify

A

find a reason to justify them, like unfavorable conditions

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outdated

A

when we blindly follow outdated routines, we end up

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unearthed

A

they may well have unearthed the issue with the

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cluttered

A

their lives had been cluttered with busyness

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rubber

A

These thin rubber bands prevent hot gases

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irrespective

A

…every idea is welcome, irrespective of real-world restraints…

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banish

A

To practice divergent thinking, banish that rational voice in

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lethal

A

by itself can prove lethal when mixed with another

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brink

A

it was on the brink of collapse

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dire

A

they could lead to dire consequences in the future

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realm

A

way, you enter the realm of innovative thinking

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remain

A

That way, you remain objective

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stale

A

forcing yourself out of stale thinking patterns

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everlasting

A

They hope for everlasting love in their relationships

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relish

A

with a growth mindset relish any opportunity to learn

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inventions

A

to planning out his inventions mentally, before sketching them

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stubbornly

A

a particular solution, we stubbornly defend it

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revelation

A

when he had a revelation

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comet

A

airplane dubbed the “vomit comet,” which replicates zero gravity

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defend

A

particular solution, we stubbornly defend it

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utilize

A

avoid mistakes is to utilize reference class forecasting

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phenomenon

A

This phenomenon began when a Ranger

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boredom

A

J. K. Rowling, champion boredom

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wander

A

…allowed it time to wander.

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embraced

A

Every idea is embraced as a possibility.

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wax

A

…using wings made of wax.

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pursue

A

a space company to pursue his dream of settling

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mused

A

was 16, Albert Einstein mused over what would happen

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plunged

A

…his wings and Icarus plunged to his death.

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stiff

A

sweatpants instead of a stiff suit

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replicates

A

the “vomit comet,” which replicates zero gravity by diving

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mimics

A

in an environment that mimics your upcoming challenge

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bulk of

A

if Musk did the bulk of manufacturing in-house, he’d

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conforming

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innovate is to stop conforming

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devoted

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He devoted hours to planning out

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predict

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the weather forecaster might predict relatively cool weather, yet

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intact

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most will still be intact, even if the worst

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soar

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…yourself, you can finally soar.

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hinder

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trapped in habits that hinder original ideas

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dismiss

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This ensures you don’t dismiss any concepts prematurely

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abyss

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deep down into the abyss that we are currently

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overcome

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there are ways to overcome this overconfidence and start

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childlike

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But that childlike sense of wonder and

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adherence

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notebook where he recorded adherence to 13 personal virtues

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shivering

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may then end up shivering outside

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arugula

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leafy greens like kale, arugula and chard

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admirable

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in your less-than-admirable moments

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altitude

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reached the average flight altitude of a commercial airliner

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as if

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be about the same as if you were standing on

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abstractly

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our ability to think abstractly and analyze things, people

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straightforward

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remember experiences in a straightforward way

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scholar

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and their most famous scholar Milton Friedman

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gut feeling

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Gut feeling: why rather than making

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persuasive

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a message to be persuasive, for example, try promoting

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intuition

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answered by relying on intuition

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readily

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horrific accidental deaths more readily than deaths from strokes

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in favor of

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duration of the event in favor of a particular memory from

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descend

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them five hours to descend through the ocean to

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eager

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because our minds are eager to make quick judgments

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cedes

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When a leader cedes a little control, workers

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innate

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problem exposes is our innate mental laziness

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substitution

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their many types: the substitution heuristic and the availability

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strain

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a state of cognitive strain

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reasoning

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our individual decision-making, reasoning and beliefs

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unfolded

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how the entire event unfolded after the fact

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neglect

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In fact, base-rate neglect is extremely common

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cognitive

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Like priming, these cognitive phenomena happen without our

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discern

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the issue, you may discern that although the company’s

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overestimate

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which is where you overestimate the probability of something

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nudge

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that prime money could nudge our behavior away from

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criticize

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her coach will probably criticize her for not continuing

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spot

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focused attention, you might spot her within a matter

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individualistic

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concept of money primes individualistic actions

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implication

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One implication of Vohs’s research is

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rational

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information to make a rational decision

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illustrates

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bat-and-ball problem illustrates this, as our minds

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fragment

A

you see the word fragment “SO_P

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make predictions

A

How can you make predictions on whether certain things

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comprehend

A

a situation it can’t comprehend, System 1 calls on

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summon

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event causes us to summon related words and concepts

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clubs

A

I KNOW THAT THE CLUBS ARE WEAPONS OF WAR

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squid

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also meet the Giant Squid at this sea level

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stern or bow

A

was standing on its stern or bow, it would be sticking

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legacy

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This system is a legacy of our evolutionary past

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inhibit

A

cinnamon, oregano and nutmeg inhibit an enzyme known as

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submerged

A

Building if it was submerged under water

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wrinkle

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such as “Florida” and “wrinkle,” responded by walking at

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ominously

A

sea creatures like the ominously named Black Dragonsih, a

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postage stamp

A

elephant balancing on a postage stamp

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handful

A

you throw in a handful or two of berries

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emperor

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maximum dive depth of Emperor Penguins. And this is

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intuitively

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our brain that operates intuitively and suddenly, often without

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tendency

A

Our mind’s tendency to oversimplify things without

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jack

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HE MAY PLAY THE JACK OF DIAMONDS

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impulsive

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two characters are the impulsive, automatic, intuitive System 1,

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delinquents

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show that violent teen delinquents find it difficult to

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delinquency

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delinquency, a major factor in

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cardiac arrest

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us at risk of cardiac arrest

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adept

A

who are more emotionally adept also tend to be

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deficits

A

deficits

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elicit

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these neuronal pathways can elicit emotional intelligence

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intertwined

A

think and feel are intertwined

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aptitudes

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intelligence can develop social aptitudes such as the ability

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gauge

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situation helps you to gauge how others will feel

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fosters

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Emotional intelligence fosters good social interactions because

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defer

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you feel, you can defer the gratification

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become aware of

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emotions, you need to become aware of what causes them

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leverage

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manage your emotions and leverage them to reach your

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disrupt

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of our minds and disrupt rational

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obsolete

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obsolete emotional responses

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juggler

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Like a juggler, our minds can handle

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flawed

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However, they are also flawed and can lead us

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impede

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Sometimes our emotions can impede our judgment or make

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drive to act

A

emotion also lose this drive to act

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clenched fists

A

body language, maybe his clenched fists or loud voice, you

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searing

A

that searing pain

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plummet

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and mental health will plummet

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brag

A

common for people to brag

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prescribing

A

Scottish doctors have begun prescribing rambling and bird watching

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rambling

A

doctors have begun prescribing rambling and bird watching to

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stationary

A

10 minutes on a stationary bike

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common sense

A

your diet is your common sense

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quotient

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that CQ, or curiosity quotient, is

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astray

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that can lead us astray

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outliers

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usually end up picking outliers – the billionaires who’ve changed

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tantrum

A

old is throwing a tantrum about visiting grandma because

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contribute

A

who might want to contribute to their charity

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intuitive

A

are the impulsive, automatic, intuitive System 1, and the

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perceive

A

Try to perceive it from within your

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personal

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Within minutes of waking, I reach for it and from the cozy warmth of my bed, I check my personal emails, respond to texts, look through my news alerts, dawdle over Instagram, and scroll through Facebook to see what’s been going on in my sphere while

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saber

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to escape any nearby saber-toothed tigers

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chopping

A

Chopping them up before cooking

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connotations

A

hold different meanings and connotations for different people

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bring up

A

is one we must bring up the intensity of water

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cabbage

A

vegetables like broccoli and cabbage can aid liver and

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compromise

A

Being able to compromise is important when dealing

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sticking out

A

bow, it would be sticking out of the water

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gratification

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to attach some immediate gratification to them

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on par with

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system, desiring something is on par with getting something

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keep up with

A

Well, many organizations can’t keep up with the constant changes of

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celery

A

a kid to eat celery

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servings

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diet should contain four servings of fruit a day

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detrimental

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gossiping is toxic and detrimental to instilling trust

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hereditary

A

of 14 patients with hereditary colon polyps

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quell

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the best way to quell a conflict is to

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reap

A

your company will all reap the rewards

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