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Rules of Thinking, The
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Rules of Thinking, The

by Richard Templar
September 2019
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
240 pages
4h 15m
English
Pearson Business
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RULE 11

Be self-aware

However bad an experience you’re going through, you can always learn from it. If you don’t, why would things change? If they’re bad this time, they’ll be bad next time. I spoke to someone recently whose partner had just died. She had had a tough life, having lost her mother at the age of 15. She told me that she’d coped really badly with that and was messed up for a long time. So this time she wasn’t going to make the same mistakes again. Now that’s resilience.

Think about the things that have gone badly in your life in the past and reflect on how you dealt with them. When new traumas come along, think about how you can handle them. If you keep approaching everything in the same way, you’ll keep getting the same results. ...

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ISBN: 9781292263823