4 Things All Wise People Know

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A wise person knows the proper aims of the activity she is engaged in. She wants to do the right things to achieve these aims- wants to meet the needs of the people she is serving.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

A wise person knows how to improvise, balancing conflicting aims and interpreting rules and principles in light of the particularities of each context.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

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A wise person is perceptive, knows how to read a social context, and knows how to move beyond the black- and-white of rules and see the gray in a situation.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

‘A wise person knows how to make emotions an ally of reason, to rely on emotion to signal what a situation calls for, and to inform judgment without distorting it. He can feel, intuit, or ‘just know’ what the right thing to do is, enabling him to act quickly when timing matters. His emotions and intuitions are well educated.’- Barry Schwartz and Kenneth Sharpe

Shawn Achor Quotes On Facing Adversity

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See adversity as a stepping-stone

‘The most successful people see adversity not as a stumbling block, but as a stepping -stone to greatness.’- Shawn Achor

Adopt a positive mindset

‘The most successful people adopt a mindset that not only makes their workdays more bearable, but also helps them work longer, harder, and faster than their negative mindset peers.’- Shawn Achor

By changing the fulcrum of our mindset

‘… by changing the fulcrum of our mindset and lengthening our lever of possibility, we change what is possible. It’t not the weight of the world that determines what we can accomplish. It is our fulcrum and lever.’- Shawn Achor

Try something new

‘Once we accept … new order in the working universe– that happiness is the center around which success orbits- we can change the way we work, interact with colleagues, and lead our teams, to give our own careers, and our whole organizations, the competitive edge.’- Shawn Achor