View life as an opportunity to learn.
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We can learn from every experience. Often, the more difficult the situation, the more we can learn from it. It is wonderful to be able to look back on difficult times and be grateful that we have learnt so much from them.
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Be open to new ideas.
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Be careful not to fall into the trap of complacency where our ideas become static and we cease to grow. A new idea may challenge the way we think, but it may well have merit. It is certainly worth exploring or thinking about new ideas, even if only to determine how valid they may be.
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Remember that everyone we meet knows something we don't.
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There is potential to learn from everything and everyone we encounter. It takes wisdom to learn from a fool.
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Learn from life, love it, but don't let yourself be hurt by it.
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We often find ourselves in situations where we can get hurt. Ultimately, however, we have control over how hurt we feel. There is little benefit in feeling hurt too deeply, for too long or too often.
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Do not discount the opinions of others, even if you disagree. There must be some reason why they believe it.
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Try and understand why others feel the way they do. In doing so you may find that their opinions have more validity than you think, or at very worst you may learn something.
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It is important to get to know and understand yourself.
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Understanding yourself gives you more control over your own feelings and a greater capacity to achieve your goals.
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We learn a little when we succeed, a lot when we fail.
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It is great to succeed but we tend to learn more from what we did wrong than what we did right. The way to make something better a second time around is to not make the same mistakes again.Dwelling on the mistakes achieves nothing. Sort out what went wrong and don't make the same mistakes next time.
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