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Personal mastery

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

Bertrand Russell

Insanity describes someone who does the same thing again and again, but is surprised when they do not achieve a different outcome. Let me explain. What was your last New Year’s resolution? Did you make it stick? For most of us the answer to the first question involves a genuine aspiration to change our lives for the better. Yet, the answer to the second question is often a disappointing acknowledgement of failure to make that change happen.

At the beginning of each year, for example, the ritual is to give up smoking, to begin eating that healthy diet, to get fit or to spend more time ...

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