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When there is a problem, always identify and evaluate your underlying assumptions that may be contributing to the problem or preventing you from seeing the problem clearly.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: Always Assumptions Clearly Contributing Evaluate Identify May Preventing Problem Seeing Underlying You Your

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New Year's Resolutions come and go. Some we keep, some we don't. In order to make lasting changes in our lives, we must first change our minds. We sometimes forget, and we often feel stuck, but we all have the power to do so.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: Change Changes Come Come And Go Feel First Forget Go Keep Lasting Lives Make Minds Must New Often Order Our Our Lives Power Resolutions Some Sometimes Stuck Year

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Sometimes our childhood experiences are emotionally intense, which can create strong mental models. These experiences and our assumptions about them are then reinforced in our memory and can continue to drive our behavior as adults.

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Topics: About Adult Assumptions Behavior Childhood Continue Create Drive Emotionally Experiences Intense Memory Mental Models Our Reinforced Sometimes Strong Them Then Which

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One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: Information Knowledge Logic Mental Models Most Most Powerful New Old Powerful Thinking Ways

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When we can see things as they are, without projecting our mental models and fears, we are being objective. When we can understand and consider another person's point of view, we are being objective.

~Elizabeth Thornton

Topics: Another Being Consider Fears Mental Models Objective Our Person Point Point Of View Projecting See Things Understand View Without

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Biography

Nationality: Canadian

Type: Writer

Born: January 24th, 1940

Died: July 12th, 2010

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