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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 9

Take control

When it comes to interpreting what happens in your life, people fall broadly into two camps. Those who believe that it’s all down to fate and you can’t change it, and those who believe that you have free will and control your own life. Science has not yet agreed which is the case, but it has established that people who believe they control their own lives tend to be happier.

Believing you control your life is crucial to resilience as well. Apart from anything else it motivates you to find ways of coping or at least new ways to think about your problems even where there’s little you can do on the face of it. You can’t bring back someone who has died, but if you believe your thinking and your decisions will influence the ...

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