Moving From Reaction to Enthusiasm Beyond focus, how can we make more productive use of personal energy?

If you are invaded by thought-based fear, seek to recognise and closely observe the thoughts.

Stay curious. Improve the quality of questions before getting to work on answers. Use more questions to see beyond the obvious answers. Improve group dynamics by ensuring there is enough attention given to asking the right questions. Be interested.

Know Yourself Knowing ourselves is one of life’s great challenges. “Above all, know thyself” is advice which has endured.

Our behaviour is known as “hyperbolic discounting” and it helps explain why we are generally poor at saving for retirement.

If you are invaded by thought-based fear, seek to recognise and closely observe the thoughts.

Principle Five: Consistency. Being inconsistent is considered undesirable. We go to great lengths to avoid inconsistency. Therefore to influence behaviour it is best to start from a common understanding and build slowly from there. Build on existing commitments.

Fear of the Future

By contrast, Reward System B is categorised by what I call “share of value” or headwork.