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8The Art of Thinking Clearly
An eye-opening look at human psychology and reasoning — essential reading for anyone who wants to avoid “cognitive errors” and make better choices in all aspects of their lives.
29Dealing with Change
There is nothing in life, that is as certain as change. It is not easy to leave our comfort zone, because there is always something good and something bad accompanied with change. The question is how we deal with it, when the wind of change come to our house - do we close the doors or build wind mills?
Thoughts
Your mind is for having ideas, not for holding them.
Pretend your brain is a white board. Is it covered with to-do lists and “DO NOT ERASE”? Is there space for drawing and combining ideas?
If we don’t appropriately manage the ‘open loops’ in our life, our attention will get pulled.
Achievements have greater appeal as failures, therefore they are systematically overrated. The media usually reportes only about stars, the unsuccessful are not mentioned.
Therfore we end up a distorted perception of the real chances. It is useful to study the unsuccessful.
#SurvivorshipBias
Behind each successful author hide 100 unsuccessful, behind each unsuccessful there are 100 that did not find a publisher, behind each of them there 100 who have not yet completed their manuscript ....
But in the news only the stars get the whole attention.
do you have at least one enemy? Good. Invite him or her over for coffee and ask for an honest opinion about your strengths and weaknesses. You will be forever grateful you did.
Smile big at the right time.
Women who were slower to smile in the corporate world are perceived as more credible.
The flooding smile: when meeting someone, don’t smile right away. Pause for a moment, then let a big flooding smile go over your mouth and eyes. This will give them the impression that the smile is more genuine
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
The reality is that changes are coming... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
We must learn to view change as a natural phenomenon - to anticipate it and to plan for it. The future is ours to channel in the direction we want to go... we must continually ask ourselves, "What will happen if...?" or better still, "How can we make it happen?"