When you speak slowly and have pauses,

It causes people to percieve you as credible;

It makes them assume that what you are saying has been well thought through.

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“Just Be Yourself” is terrible advice.

Far better advice is this; wear the mask that the day and the moment require.

In the unlikely event you naturally have a personality that most people consider to be charming, then just being yourself is a great strategy.

Sadly, your actual personality probably isn't that likeable.

You will need to craft a mask that most people will find likeable, and wear it whenever you enter a venue where the stakes are high.

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The bigger the sense of entitlement, the smaller the sense of gratitude.
— John Ortberg

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Abraham Lincoln on haters:


“If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”

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The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
― Ernest Hemingway


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“We are responsible for our own ignorance or, with time and openhearted enlightenment, our own wisdom.”
— Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Isabel Wilkerson

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It's difficult to face yourself when you know how much you betray yourself everyday

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It's an amazing trigger within human nature, the minute someone acknowledges their flaws, not only do we tend to forgive them, but we actually come to admire them.

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“One of the best things you can do for yourself is to never give up on yourself.”
― Angel Moreira
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Your emotional attachment to a person is not driven by how long you have known them.

It is driven by the intensity of the experiences you have shared with them, and the degree to which the conversations you have had with them were about things that actually matter.

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“People are more adept [at] working against [things] than oftentimes we give them credit for. We often think of people working for things, but they often work against things. They work against poverty. They work against their upbringing. They work against some of these things just as much as they’re working for them. Some people are very fear-driven. We talk about fear as being very negative, but it also can be very positive.”

— Dr. Julie Gurner

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“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse as his portion; that though the wide universe is full of good, no kernel of nourishing corn can come to him but through his toil bestowed on that plot of ground which is given him to till. The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.”

— Emerson

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“Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.”

William James

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"Caring about everything is a disaster.

Caring about nothing is also a disaster.

Nurture the small pocket of things that truly matter to you."

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"People who rarely receive criticism often take feedback too personally and miss opportunities to learn.

People who frequently receive criticism get used to ignoring what others say and also miss opportunities to learn.

The thing to focus on is the pattern. If you hear something once, don't let it wreck your mindset. There are many ways to view the world and not everyone will agree with your approach.

But if you're hearing something repeatedly, think carefully about whether the feedback is right."

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