shifting perspectives
things that make you change the way you see something
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shifting perspectives
“We’re pretty good at allowing our incorrect certainties to slowly fade into the background, without a crisis or reckoning. We gradually move on, now even more certain about the other things we’re certain of.
Resilience can be found by holding onto our certainties just a little less tightly. One way to do that is to remember just how often the old ones fade away.”
Problems, by definition, have solutions. You might not like the cost of the solution, the trade-offs it leads to, or the time and effort it takes, but problems have solutions.
On the other hand, situations don’t. Situations are simply things we need to live with.
Once we realize that a problem we have isn’t a problem at all, but actually a situation,... See more
On the other hand, situations don’t. Situations are simply things we need to live with.
Once we realize that a problem we have isn’t a problem at all, but actually a situation,... See more
Working With Problems
“WE HAVE TO PAY”
But what if we get to?
Imagine looking at the exchange of money as an alternative way to say things like:
Thank you!
Please keep going.
My life is better with this in it.
A signal of gratitude carries more weight than a forced action
Alex Tan • #076 Consider This!
Growth mindset is just replying to yourself with “skill issue” every time something goes wrong
Emmett Shear • Tweet
“If you can see a thing whole,” he said, “it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives … But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful earth is, is to see it from the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is... See more
Outcomes are what count; don’t let good process excuse bad results.