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Every excuse you accept makes you weaker. Excuses stop you from concentrating and paying attention. When you excuse yourself from learning something new, you block your focus and your energy. Always remember that where your attention goes, your energy flows.
2. Who would you be without your excuses? Enter all learning with this new mindset.
characteristic: the more I put into it, the more it will hold.” He loves learning. He wants to remember and train his mind. Now, who do you think will have
Negative beliefs and thoughts place a block on your concentration and memory. Unless you decide to take responsibility and change the thoughts that you are constantly feeding yourself, you will not be able to break through your negative conditioning. Every single thought we have is creative: it has the power to build and the power to destroy. Most people don’t realize that when they use
In brief, every thought and every word works for you or against you, and every thought that you confirm to be true multiplies and becomes a belief.
“Do not tolerate for a minute the idea that you are prohibited from any achievement by the absence of in-born talent or ability. This is a lie of the grandest order, an excuse of the saddest kind.”
When you are multitasking, you are actually switching between tasks, you are always semi-attending, and it is not very effective.
“Multi-tasking is known to slow people down by 50% and add 50% more mistakes.” Multi-tasking is like putting your brain on drugs. There is a whole body of research that shows that multitasking is less productive, makes you less creative, and contributes to you making bad decisions.
The first step is to find your interests and then to find links or connections between your interests and the new information that you are learning.
