Mindset

When you exude quiet confidence, you are sure in yourself, without flaunting it.

This poise will attract others to you. They will sense there is more to be discovered. It will make you appear a touch mysterious.

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Most of us have a dream that we are too afraid to pursue.

The question, “What would you do if you knew you could not fail?” is meant to bring that dream out in the open.

It’s a powerful thought experiment that can help you turn your life around. It’s also a bit scary.

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Most people, when faced with a challenge, will give up. They will blame their bad luck and move on to something else.

But a few people will turn a challenge into an opportunity. By reframing the situation, they will succeed where others failed.

Mindset is everything. To get what you want, you must equip yourself with better mental models.

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To control the narrative is to control how people think about you.

You don’t leave it up to them to form their own opinion. Rather, you interpret the facts for them.

Everybody is doing it — governments, businesses, and public figures. To hold power is synonymous with shaping the narrative as you see fit.

But should you?

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The way we think about ourselves and the world around us makes a big difference.

These mental models can either enable us, or they can be the reason why we fail.

In this article, I have compiled the 13 mindset hacks that made all the difference in my life. I hope they will do so for you too.

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There is a saying that I came across recently, which struck a chord with me — “It’s better to be a warrior in a garden than to be a gardener in a war.”

It very much sums up why I turned to martial arts at a young age, after regularly getting beat up by older kids. You always need to prepare for the worst case.

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Freedom — alongside love — is one of the building blocks of happiness.

That’s why we must strive to have more freedom in life.

But how do you do that? Especially with so many competing definitions of freedom around?

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Are you constantly being pulled in 10 directions at once?

It’s not just that other people — your boss, your relatives, even strangers — demand your attention. It’s also that by digital means, people now always have access to you.

If you give into that, you will never get around to your most important projects. Life will slip you by.

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On some level, all of us suffer from a lack of self-awareness.

It means that we are blind to certain negative behaviors in ourselves that are obvious to everybody else.

So what can you do?

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Price’s law predicts how a small number of people in a given group are responsible for most of the results.

Even more interestingly, it looks at how incompetency grows exponentially in large organizations.

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