CHAPTER 3
Do You Know Your Mental Rules?
Like it or not, we all have rules about how other people should act. These rules begin as beliefs, as conscious and sometimes subconscious ideas about how people should behave. Over time, these beliefs can become something more than just what we think; they can become our framework for judging other people. To others they might just be our opinions, but to us they are hard-and-fast rules.
In his book Awaken the Giant Within, personal development legend Tony Robbins devotes an entire chapter to the concept of these rules. As Robbins says, “[W]hat will determine our emotions and behaviors is our beliefs about what is good and what is bad, what we should do and what we must do. These precise standards and ...
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