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If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.
traditional monetary incentives work well for routine, rule-based work: jobs that do not require a lot of creativity.
She realized that writing the first version drained so much of her energy, she could not finish it, while she was so energized while writing the second version, she did not want to stop.
In other words, kindness is a sustainable source of happiness—a simple yet profound insight that can change lives.
May I be well. May I be happy. May I be free from suffering.
Being praised for being smart is bad for you.
This shift is the transformation from “I” to “We.” It is the most important process leaders go through in becoming authentic.
These five domains form a model which David calls the SCARF model, which stands for Status, Certainty, Autonomy, Relatedness, and Fairness.6
By addressing my identity issue skillfully right at the beginning, the entire quality of the conversation changes.
e-mails seldom contain sufficient information for the brain to recognize the emotional context of the sender, the brain fabricates the missing information, often with a negative bias, and then unconsciously assumes its own fabrication to be the truth.
Love them. Understand them. Forgive them. Grow with them.
If you have time for only one more book after Search Inside Yourself, read Difficult Conversations.
If you would like to learn more about emotional intelligence, there is no better introduction than Daniel Goleman’s Emotional Intelligence.
three. The first is Thich Nhat Hanh’s The Miracle of Mindfulness. Thich Nhat Hanh is a great master who, in my eyes, personifies near perfection in mindfulness practice. The Miracle of Mindfulness is my favorite among his many good books.
