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The One Reason for Both Our Success and Failure Mindset
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The One Reason for Both Our Success and Failure Mindset

Our mindsets are built as we go through life. It's good to know, sometimes, how we got to where we are...

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Robert C. Worstell
Apr 23, 2017
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Both Success and Failure Are Cause by One Source - Your Mindset

The One Reason for Both Our Success and Failure — Mindset

Nothing new is without risk.

Easy to say, even when you ve lived through it.

What they don t tell you is that the worst traps you can run into are in your own mind.

Research found many sources saying the same thing:

  • your thoughts become habitual,

  • your habits require certain actions,

  • your environment is built by your actions to support those habits, and

  • your habitual thoughts are then reinforced by the world they create.

Unfortunately, you ve been trained since birth to accept conventional wisdom. And this sets your thoughts and mental habits on a very unstable path. (See the quotes in Part 1 about the lies conventional wisdom spreads.)

Only when this accumulated set of beliefs begins routinely failing does a person start to question what they have accepted and then start to rebuild their own world-view.

You can trace most successful people back to a massive failure earlier in life. This is where they had to start thinking on their own, to…

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