4 SECONDS-All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits
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Monday, 22 June 2015
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Published in Awareness, Bookshelf, Community, Competency, Continuous Improvement, Excellence, Lifelong Learning, Personal Effectiveness, Personal Satisfaction
FOUR SECONDS:
All the Time You Need to Stop Counter-Productive Habits and Get the Results You Want
Peter Bregman
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SOLUTIONS TO FAMILIAR MISTAKES
At a party in Greenwich Village, author and consultant Peter Bregman hears a yelp as one of the guests steps on the host’s dog. The guest yells at the fleeing dog to “watch out!” Then, seeing Bregman looking at her, she explains that “he’s always in the way.”
As Bregman writes in his new book, Four Seconds, “Really? You step on a dog, and then you blame the dog? Who does that? Actually, a lot of us do.” Four Seconds is filled with behaviors and actions that a lot of us do, and most of those actions, Bregman argues, are actually self-defeating. Blaming others instead of taking responsibility, for example, makes people appear weak and dishonest, hurts one’s self esteem and, perhaps most importantly, eliminates learning opportunities.
“When something is your fault and you don’t admit it, in all probability, you’ll make the same mistake in the future, which will lead to more blame,” Bregman writes.
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