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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 16

Better out than in

In the midst of a crisis, you often find that your head is crammed with thoughts, feelings, worries, stress. You can’t see where to begin coping because your thoughts are swirling about so fast and erratically that you can’t catch them. You’re overwhelmed.

One of the most helpful things you can do at this point is to get your thoughts out of your head and on to paper. Research has shown that people who are able to do this report that they feel less stressed afterwards – in other words they can rebound faster from the trauma.

Part of the problem with coping is that you can’t get your thoughts to keep still. But they stay still on paper. Whether you splurge it all out at once, or whether you want to go back and re-order ...

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