Scott: How about our failures, where we are not succeeding as much as we could?
Our failures become our rituals, our rituals become our habits, and our habits become our identity.
"Peter Drucker talks about feeding our strengths and starving our failures, " she explains.
And we do it every time we refuse to let our failures define us, and we challenge what has always been in exchange for what could be.
Our failures aren't old enough to be a generational hand-me-down.
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Yet, when we explain our own achievements in life, we are biased to over-value our personal characteristics as explaining our successes while also over-valuing our situation factors in explaining our failures.
We need to learn to treasure and to even celebrate our inevitable failures.
Have you ever noticed how likely we are to share our financial success stories, yet how hesitant we become when sharing our financial failures?
This focus on our weaknesses and failures is a common cognitive distortion.
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If we were to chart our progress on a board, it has ups and downs, but overall it should move upward as we live and learn from our mistakes and failures.
Here's a look at the medicines that have dropped off our list due to failures in the clinic.
We are learning more each day about the multiple failures in our security and intelligence system that preceded that attack.
"The lack of an effective malaria vaccine is one of the biggest public health failures of our time, " Wolfe said.
We need a candid appraisal of past failures in our foreign aid programs and a sweeping growth-oriented revision of the IMF's austerity mind-set.
In fact, I believe self-interested vigilance on the part of capital suppliers will be more effective in reducing bank failures than our regulators have been.
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Whilst at the conference we not only shared the successes and failures of our own projects, but we made friends with young people trying to achieve the same objectives across the globe.
Like most trends in IT, cloud computing is a combination of a number of underlying trends that have long been in the works, a kind of evolutionary blend of our previous successes and failures.
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We can see the failures of our present mechanisms with the collapse of the global financial systems as just one example, where these bankers were considered to be of the highest intelligence possible with their Ivy League education.
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The fact is, the economic crisis of the past two years -- indeed the growing economic insecurity of the middle class that's been going for a decade -- was born not just of failures in our economic system.
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Our recent article on Management Failures explains why investors need to beware large asset-write-downs like those incurred by NYX.
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This approach, combined with sound money and stable interest rates, would maximize our prosperity and minimize financial failures, crises, and losses.
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Anyone quick to dismiss this potential problem need only think back on our humbling recent experiences with ICD failures to recognize that the late manifestation of an unanticipated failure mechanism is a fact of reality in cardiac rhythm devices.
But our training prepared us by concentrating on failures and solving big problems under extreme pressure.
Our students are eager to deconstruct the failures involved and to study the way regulation will impact the banking and finance industries.
Many people focus on these micro structural failures in corporations and wrongly extrapolate that our entire capitalist architecture suffers systemic rot.
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The sad reality is we build our adjacencies, VC and corporate ventures out of failures and that has got to change.
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This research will include a series of reports and viewpoint articles on particular applications, infrastructure solutions, vendor and CSP successes and failures, and cloud scorecards for review by our clients and the SME market in general.
And so he understood that our lives are marked by sins as well as virtues, failures as well as success, weakness as well as strength.
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