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Don’t control your moods
For failures, their mood, or state, is determined by others or by their environment rather than by themselves. For instance, if someone says something negative about them, they feel terrible. Or if it rains, they put themselves in a bad mood. You might say they get into a right state. Without giving it any conscious thought, they bounce around from one state to the next hundreds of times a day. And in a typical day, many of those states prove to be extremely negative. I’m not talking about genuine mental illness here; that’s a different thing entirely as you’ll discover later.
Now, if you think back ...
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