From the course: Communicating in the Language of Leadership

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Our thinking defines our experience

Our thinking defines our experience

- I'm a planner. That's the way that we are as human beings. We are wired to plan and to think things through and to roil around and to create scenarios in our minds so that we can do the mental equivalent of working through pi, you know, trying to solve for pi. And you know that it just keep going and it keeps going and keeps going. So if it's true that our thinking is defining our experience the key is to simply identify that the thing that's making that look impossible, whatever that situation might be, it's just a thought. And a thought can't hurt you. Thought is fleeting. And you know, in a few minutes, another one's going to, or few seconds even, another thought's going to come along. I mean, have you ever had something where you're like so frustrated and, you know, just going crazy and then five minutes later you're like, "What was that all about?" - Yeah. - Exactly. And now we're experiencing something different.…

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