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How Do You Change How You Think?

David Senra, reading Kevin Kelly's Excellent Advice for Living, says the way to change how you think is to change your behavior, because that is much easier than trying to change your behavior by changing how you think. He calls the line gold and reads it a second time. The instruction that follows is to act out the change you seek.

The next sentences stay with the same move. Do not worry how or where you begin. As long as you keep moving, your success will arrive far from where you started. The work on a worthy project is endless and cannot be limited, so the limit has to be your hours. Time, not the work, is the only thing you can manage.

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