Instead of this tired old game, the exact opposite message would be more helpful: Learn your job, grow personally, grow professionally, develop new and interesting skills, and flourish.
Tag: Mindset
Failure Immunity: The Vaccine for your Mind
If you can convince yourself that success is a process, rather than a static outcome, the concept of failure looks dramatically different.
An Enriching Life Requires Responsible Thinking, Not Extremism
Spending time entertaining extremism in any way is detrimental both individually and collectively. If your goal is to live a better life, improve your career, relationships, or the social fabric of your country, extremism should be recognized for what it is and rejected. It is a cancer that can destroy your life and negatively impact those around you.
Replace the Illusion of Extrinsic Comparison with a Positive Intrinsic Focus
Feeding negative illusions with additional focus is a certain way to make a damaging thought like this as real as a disease. Misunderstandings, misrepresentations, fake events, or illusions tend to become real when given enough focus.
Stop calling Yourself a “Good BSer”
We know that thoughts, attitudes, relationships, behaviors, and decisions are the factors that ultimately define our lives. None of these are life or death, but they are all significant. We must be vigilant.
Your Road to Riches May Need a Simple Attitude Adjustment
Negative self-talk may not kill your chances of your success but you can be sure that it will be a hindrance. Positive self-talk may not solidify your chances of success but you can be sure that it will be an asset. Positive self-talk has enormous benefits.
Can a Positive Mental Attitude Make Your Job ‘Suck Less?’
Positive thinking should not replace all negative thought. You cannot have positive if you do not know and understand negative. Positive thinking is merely a decision, or ultimately, a habit that overcomes the negativity bias by directing one's focus toward the positive.
Is an Obsession with “Sexy Jobs” Holding You Back?
A change in attitude toward our work is usually the most healthy approach, but few thought leaders and influencers ever write about this. Instead, they perpetuate the myth that you must live out your passion, in order to be happy.
How to Rescue Our Lives and Careers from Choice Paralysis
Just by writing down what you want, scheduling steps to get there, attempting them and repeating this process over time, we will move the needle in the right direction. When we internalize the mindset of imperfect progress all we need to do is make a plan, attempt to execute, and re-attempt.
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