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Your quickest answer is often your least careful one.
One system thinks fast, on instinct; another thinks slowly, with effort. Fast thinking is fine for small things, but big decisions deserve the slow system.
Try this today: Before your next big decision, wait and write down two alternatives.
Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman (2011)
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Half your stress comes from things you were never in charge of.
Some things are up to us — our choices, effort and responses. Others are not — other people, outcomes, the weather. Put your energy only in the first group.
Try this today: List today's worry in two columns: mine and not mine.
Enchiridion — Epictetus (c. 125 CE)
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I can't do it — yet. One word changes the whole sentence.
People with a growth mindset see ability as something built through effort and practice, not fixed at birth. Mistakes become information, not verdicts.
Try this today: Add the word yet to one thing you believe you are bad at.
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success — Carol S. Dweck (2006)
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