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Rules of Thinking, The
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Rules of Thinking, The

by Richard Templar
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Pearson Business
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RULE 7

Know who you are

A friend of mine was diagnosed with a very serious illness. Of course people kept asking her how she was, what was happening with the treatment, what she was and wasn’t able to do and how could they help. She found this very frustrating and in the end she sent round an email to everyone saying that she really appreciated their concern and their offers of help, but she didn’t want to talk about it thank you. She explained to me that it wasn’t that she actually minded talking about the illness per se, it was that she felt she was starting to be defined by it.

Now this particular friend of mine is amazingly resilient and had an instinctive recognition that in order to cope with her diagnosis she had to separate it from ...

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