Patrick Devlin
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Patrick Devlin
Most of the people we try to impress are busy trying to impress someone else.
The spotlight effect is the habit of overestimating how much others focus on us. We don't see how preoccupied they are with themselves.
True confidence stems from self-respect, not social approval.
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All of them gather around a prayer, and the prayer is to be useful,” he says.
Bono
"Our actions may be impeded...but there can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions. Because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes the obstacle to our acting. And then he concluded with powerful words destined for a maxim. "The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the wa
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getmatter.com1. Serve the tea. Practice common acts of generosity and humility, like serving tea to visitors in your home. Small acts require conscious intention to begin with but can become a habit in short order.
2. Show your teeth. To the Dalai Lama, to “show your teeth” means to smile authentically—no half smiles, no Mona Lisa–style ambiguity. The true smil
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