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Stimulus vs. Response, Character Development & Trusting Your Gut

Stimulus vs. Response, Character Development & Trusting Your Gut

Mario Peshev
March 04, 2023

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3 Ideas For Better Habits

The Key Lies Between Stimulus & Response

The late educator and businessman, Stephen R. Covey on the meaning we place on what happens in life. “It's not what happens to us, but our response to what happens to us that hurts us.”

Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: 30th Anniversary Edition (The Covey Habits Series)  2

Focus on the Small Decisions

Former baseball player turned habits guru, James Clear on how you form your character through tiny decisions.

“All big things come from small beginnings. The seed of every habit is a single, tiny decision. But as that decision is repeated, a habit sprouts and grows stronger.”

Source: Atomic Habits 3

Take a Chance, Follow Your Intuition

American photographer Duane Michals on acting on your intuited ideas.

“Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.”

Source: Duane Michals

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