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we've all had one of those friends never
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broke never shy always looking flawless
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succeeding in every aspect of their life
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but what if I told you it's not luck
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it's not genetics and is almost
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certainly not waking up at 5:00 a.m.
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drinking a celery juice and journaling
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in your 50 notebook we can all be that
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woman because the truth is the women who
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actually set themselves apart the 1%
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women live by a completely different set
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of rules and today I'm breaking down the
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seven habits that make the biggest
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difference using science hello if you
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are new here then my name is Fay I'm a
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doctor working in London and now my life
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runs like a well-oiled machine however
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that was absolutely not the case I have
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failed I have flopped I have fallen flat
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on my face and documented every single
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step of the way in hopes that I can help
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others not flop in the same way by being
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obsessed with the psychology and science
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behind self-development and living a
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happier healthier life so if that sounds
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like a little bit of you then the
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Subscribe button is just down there so
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habit number one we need to talk about
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the power Pierce and I do not think
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there is another habit that is as
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important as this one I'm about to talk
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about because you can definitely become
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a top 1% woman without the genetics
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however if you have mommy and daddy's
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money to fall back on then that
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definitely helps unfort fortunately I
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was not blessed with the bank of M and
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dad and I also think that by not coming
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from a wealthy background there's also
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huge disadvantages in the way money is
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talked about and the attitudes that you
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grow up having about money Financial
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Empowerment is crucial for women and
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we've come so far since the first time
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women were allowed credit cards in the
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60s but we still have so much further to
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go the wealthiest most successful women
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don't just just save money have you seen
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the regular interest rates on savings
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accounts at the moment no no no no no
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they make their money work for them in
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their sleep when they're at work when
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they're out enjoying themselves their
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money is growing without them having to
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lift a finger and to do that they
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educate themselves financially so they
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know exactly the best and safest way to
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move with power in this Dreadful economy
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a 2024 study by Fidelity in Investments
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actually revealed that 71% of women now
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own investments in the stock market an
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18% increase from the previous year this
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uptick is significant yet the challenges
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still remain studies show that women on
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average are actually better investors
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than men because they take a more
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strategic long-term approach but they
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also invest less often use to lack of
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confidence or financial education I also
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think this is a really important topic
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especially especially in the age where
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Trad lives are making a comeback stop
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seeing money as a way to buy luxuries
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but your ticket to a life of comfort and
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security having the stability to leave a
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marriage you hate or a job that is
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burning you to the ground I know it's
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overwhelming but I strongly feel as
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though this culture around it being rude
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and Unbecoming to talk about money is
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meant to keep women and anyone who
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doesn't come from a privileged
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background away from learning about
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money so they are stuck but to help with
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the overwhelm we're going to start small
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read a book on investing do a skillshare
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class on budgeting stop saying that you
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are bad with money you're not you just
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haven't learned yet habit number two
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trust capital and this one is for the
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girlies who say they're going to do
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something and never actually do it I'm
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looking at you and not with judgment I
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promise because I have been there but
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the top 1% of women do not break
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promises with themselves if you tell a
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friend that you're going to meet them
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for coffee you'll turn up but when you
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promise yourself that you're going to go
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to the gym wake up early start a
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business suddenly that becomes optional
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why do you have more respect for your
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friend's time than your own maybe is
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because you know that you can't rely on
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yourself top 1% women know that
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confidence doesn't come from affirmation
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in the mirror it comes from self trust
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every time you keep a promise to
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yourself you build evidence that you can
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rely on you every time you follow
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through on a commitment every time you
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make a financial investment the more
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confident and disciplined you become
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because you learn to trust yourself
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again a 2021 study in the Journal of
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Behavioral Medicine tracked 500 people
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for 18 months those who kept micro
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promises to themselves like walk 10
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minutes every single day saw a 4% higher
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goal adherence than those chasing big
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wins why because every promise kept
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releases dopamine rewiring your brain to
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associate action with reward and trust
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yourself again so what's the key here
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High achieving women don't rely on
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motivation they build self-trust Capital
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by starting small proving that they can
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be trusted with a little and progressing
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to trusting themselves with a lot so
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your homework tonight if you say you're
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going to read 10 pages before bed do it
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the action doesn't even really matter
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the more important thing is proving to
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yourself you do what you say you're
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going to do habit number three the
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refuse reset as women we're taught to be
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polite quiet go along with the flow
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pretend to be a little duck floating
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along the surface whilst our legs
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frantically kick below all of this means
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that women often struggle saying one of
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the most important words in the English
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language no research shows that women
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are more likely to suppress their
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emotions take on others burdens and
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overextend themselves in both
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professional and personal spheres it's
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deeply ingrained in our social
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conditioning we're taught to be
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caretakers nurturers and people pleases
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but not being able to say no isn't just
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a one-way ticket to burnout town There's
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also research to suggest it has pretty
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serious consequences studies
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consistently show that chronic emotional
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suppression essentially the act of
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bottling up our feelings and constantly
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prioritizing others over ourselves can
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significantly impact Women's Health a
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2018 study found that women who
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consistently suppress their emotions are
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at a higher risk of autoimmune diseases
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like lupus and rheumatoid arthritis the
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research suggests that emotional
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depression triggers chronic stress which
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can suppress the immune system over time
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leading to inflammation and higher
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susceptibility to illness and that's
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before we even get into mental health
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conditions if you constantly say yes to
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things that drain you then you are
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running on borrowed energy and at some
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point it's going to run out the good
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news is if the big Eno is absolutely
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terrifying to you then you can start
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small Begin by simply acknowledging how
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it makes you feel to even think of
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saying the word no it's normal and this
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is all part of how to retrain your brain
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you don't need to deliver a long-winded
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excuse apology or even white lie because
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that is almost just as stressful in
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itself instead here are a couple
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sentences I would like you to swiftly
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add to your vocabulary I'd love to but I
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can't right now or simply that doesn't
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work for me you don't owe any one an
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explanation protect your peace as if
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your life depends on it because quite
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honestly it does number four the mirror
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rule why do some people fail and others
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seem to always succeed the answer May
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lie in a part of the brain called the
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visual cortex and here is how you are
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going to hijack it a lot of people fail
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because they seem to set vague goals
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like I want to be successful but the top
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1% women they get specific they create a
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vision so clear that they can see it
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they can feel it and step into it on a
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daily basis a 2019 Nature Neuroscience
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study found that Vivid mental imagery
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activates the brain's occipital lobe
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which is the vision center and the
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prefrontal cortex which is the planning
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Hub of the brain this creates a mental
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blueprint that drives action forward so
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what does any of this actually mean it
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means that research into cognitive
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Neuroscience shows us that when you
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visualize something in detail your brain
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lights up as if you're actually
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experiencing it this strengthens neural
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Pathways which are the connections
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within our brain that make your goals
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feel more achievable and you go from
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dreaming to acting every year there are
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two activities I do without fail that
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help me tap into the visual cortex of my
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brain firstly is the perfect day
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exercise this is basically where every
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single year I write out my perfect day
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one year from now and I always get into
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the nitty-gritty specifics of the day
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where I wake up what does the room look
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like what does it smell like what do I
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eat for breakfast what can I see what
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can I feel what are the thoughts going
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through my head everything and then with
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this Clarity I've got from the perfect
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day exercise I then move on to create a
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vision board I'm sure you've heard of
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vision boards before but here's the
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catch generic vision boards do not
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work you need Neuroscience packed
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specificity to make a vision board that
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truly shapes the direction of your
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future if you're clueless about where to
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start like I was I used the skillshare
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class inspiration to reality making a
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vision board for your goals to hack my
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brain to become laser focused on my
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goals skillshare is my secret weapon for
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your future self will thank you hit
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number five the energy audit if there's
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one thing about top 1% women is that
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they don't just let life pass them by
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they regularly reflect but even more
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than that they get scientific evaluate
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what they eat what they read what they
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watch what they listen to and who they
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spend time with it's this ongoing
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process of refinement a way to optimize
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every single aspect of their life and if
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that sounds horrifically controlling and
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terrifying to you then I'll tell you
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something that I found way more
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terrifying last year I spent four months
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working as a doctor in pallative care I
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saw way too many people who had their
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lives cut short way too young it
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completely changed my perspective on my
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own life and for some people it might
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have pushed them towards having a bit
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more of a attitude I'm going to be dead
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anyway drinking more going out more
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doing more Reckless things quitting my
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job and traveling but it actually had
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the opposite effect for me I realized
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how precious life is and I didn't want
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to waste time doing anything I didn't
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want to do or giving energy to anyone
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that I didn't want to give energy to so
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yes wanting to refine every single
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aspect of my life is probably a little
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bit scary but it is not as scary as
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dying in your 30s and having so many
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regrets everything that we consume
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affects our energy and our experiences
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research by the National Institute of
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Mental Health shows that brains are
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highly malleable which means that they
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can be shaped a phenomenon known as
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neuroplasticity so when you expose your
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brain to that negative person in your
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life who always makes you feel worse or
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scrolling endlessly through social media
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that makes you feel bad you are
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literally shaping your brain studies
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reveal that regular exposure to negative
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stimuli can increase levels of cortisol
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the stress hormone in the body leading
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to a Perpetual state of fight or flight
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this chronic state of stress can impair
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your focus Focus slow down your
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cognitive function and even negatively
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affect your physical health on the other
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hand intentional mindful consumption
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through a balanced diet meant to fuel
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you reading uplifting material and
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listening to enlightening podcasts or my
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personal favorite just spending time
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with positive people rewires your brain
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for Focus optimism and emotional
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resilience am I saying you need to cut
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everything negative out of your life
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tomorrow no negativity is also part of
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the human experience and it's a natural
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emotion however as a top one% woman you
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are regularly going to conduct a energy
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audit to make sure that at least 80 to
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90% of your life is filling your brain
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with the good stuff habit number six
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social currency you've probably heard
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the saying your network is your net
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worth but when it comes to high
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achieving women the concept runs deeper
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than just collecting contacts but I know
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what you're going to say F I am
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ridiculously busy I barely have enough
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time for the people I love in my life at
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the moment how on Earth am I going to
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pull time out of thin air to develop
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close meaningful connections with the
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people who can open doors for me well
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the answer might actually be easier than
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you think a study from Harvard found
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that close connection like family
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friends and longtime colleagues account
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for only 16% of New Opportunities the
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other
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84% they all come from weak ties these
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are the acquaintances that you may not
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interact with on a regular basis but you
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may be significantly overlooking the
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reason weak ties are so powerful is that
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they expose you to new ideas a 2020
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study found that those with a broader
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and more first Network especially in
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weaker connections are more likely to
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find job opportunities entrepreneurial
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Ventures and creative collaborations in
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fact researchers found that weak ties
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often provide access to information that
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close ties simply cannot offer since
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closed circles tend to share similar
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information perspectives and resources I
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used to get so stressed out whenever I
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went to a networking event because I
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felt as though I had to become best
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friends with everyone and I do not have
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the emotional capacity for that then
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networking events became overwhelming
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and I shied away from them and I just
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felt as though it wasn't for me and D
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but this perspective completely changed
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that building social currency doesn't
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mean that you have to be best friends
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with everyone it means engaging and
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being open with the people who have the
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potential to help you evolve even if
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they're not the people that you interact
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with most and if you are still feeling a
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little bit anxious I at any sort of
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networking event remember this your
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future self is already in the right room
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with the right people you just haven't
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met them yet finally habit 7 I know I
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said habit one was probably the most
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important but I actually think this one
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is we need to talk about the bounce back
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code if I ever failed in the past I
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always used to take that as a sign that
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it wasn't cut out for me so for example
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if I gave up on a New Year's resolution
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to go to the gym every morning
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I wasn't sporty if I failed an exam when
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I was trying to get into medical school
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I wasn't smart enough or if I made a
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video on YouTube and it kind of flopped
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my YouTube career was over it was time
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to turn off the camera and go back to my
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normal job until probably the most
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important realization of my adult life
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I'm going to say this once and I'm going
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to need you to listen really really
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really hard high Achievers know that
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failure is not an end point is just a
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step forward on their path for Success
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every single time we fail we have
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another data point why didn't I stick to
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that New Year's resolution and what can
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I learn from it why did I fail on that
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exam and what can I learn from it why
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did my YouTube video flop and what can I
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learn from it unfortunately this
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mentality isn't something we've born
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with it's built according to the Journal
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of Personality and Social Psychology
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resilience AKA this ability to bounce
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back is largely shaped by cognitive
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reframing which is essentially how we
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perceive the challenges that we Face
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instead of seeing failure as a setback
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resilient people see it as a learning
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opportunity research from psychology
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science found that individuals with
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greater resilience had better emotional
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regulation Greater Life satisfaction and
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enhanced well-being resilient women
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don't just recover they become stronger
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now all these habits are one ful but do
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you know how to build habits into your
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daily life so that they actually stick
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