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“all humans are motivated to seek pleasure and avoid pain, to seek hope and avoid fear, and finally, to seek social acceptance and avoid rejection.”
― Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

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“What we possess is temporary, but what we become is permanent.”
― Devdutt Pattanaik, Sita: An Illustrated Retelling of the Ramayana

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“Leadership is not some mystical quality that some possess and others do not. As humans, we all have what it takes, and we all need to use our leadership abilities in every aspect of our work life.”
― L. David Marquet, Turn the Ship Around!: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders

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“As much as others may need to change, or we may want them to change, the only person we can continually inspire, prod, and shape—with any degree of success—is the person in the mirror.”
― Kerry Patterson, Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High

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“One method is to try asking the question "why" as many times as it takes to get to an emotion. Usually this will happen by the fifth “why.” This is a technique adapted from the Toyota Production System described by Taiichi Ohno as the “5 Whys Method.” Ohno wrote that it was "the basis of Toyota's scientific approach ... by repeating ‘why?’ five times, the nature of the problem as well as its solution becomes clear.”
― Nir Eyal, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

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