Quotes About Mindset

even compelling causal statistics will not change long-held beliefs or beliefs rooted in personal experience.

When action is needed, optimism, even of the mildly delusional variety, may be a good thing.

We must allow for that uncertainty in our thinking.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

Reciprocal priming effects tend to produce a coherent reaction: if you were primed to think of old age, you would tend to act old, and acting old would reinforce the thought of old age.

La adaptación a una nueva situación, sea buena o mala, consiste en gran parte en pensar cada vez menos en ella. En

They found that putting the participants in a good mood before the test by having them think happy thoughts more than doubled accuracy. An even more striking result is that unhappy subjects were completely incapable of performing the intuitive task accurately; their guesses were no better than random. Mood evidently affects the operation of System 1: when we are uncomfortable and unhappy, we lose touch with our intuition.

Adaptation to a new situation, whether good or bad, consists in large part of thinking less and less about it.

you were primed to think of old age, you would tend to act old, and acting old would reinforce the thought of old age.

Zu viele Leute hielten ihre Gewohnheiten für Grundregeln der Welt.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

Downsiders," said the clown, "never look up.

The critical point is that knowing we can always get higher can be a real downer. It informs us that we are never going to reach the ultimate point of happiness because there is no ultimate point of happiness.

Do whatever it takes to stop feeling bad, including downing a couple of shots of bourbon.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system." —WILLIAM JAMES, AMERICAN PHILOSOPHER

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy." You have to love those words "very miserable"; Schopenhauer could not be content with simply saying "unhappy" as Epicurus did.

We slough off the responsibility to create ourselves by shrugging and claiming, "That's just the way I am.

A belief is not a fact; it is simply what we believe.

Things will have to change. And one of those things that will have to change: People will have to change their internal world." On

En fait, nous créons nos propres prisons. Celles-ci sont toujours à l´exacte dimension du regard que nous posons sur les situations auxquelles nous sommes confrontés.

There has been a change in attitude, though.

Whatever's going on with us, it's not a disease. It's not a beast. It's just a new muscle. You're never going to control it if you're too afraid to flex it.

Es saludable analizar críticamente nuestra visión de mundo, el tejido de creencias que constituye el marco de referencia desde el cual evaluamos nuestro entorno. Es una hiedra espinosa enraizada en nuestra mente, que se adhiere a nuestro ser interceptando la luz, y que necesita de un jardinero que sepa dónde cortar. Ha crecido alimentada por el continuo proceso de educación formal e informal que determina nuestra panera de pensar y actuar.

Mind is the great lever of all things.