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10 Attitudes that Produce Negative Thoughts
We have 10 thought-patterns (they can be called attitudes) that I’ve
discovered, and they influence us negatively if we allow them to. They
actually come from our mindset in our modern, western world, and we
must guard against them, especially in goal-setting.
It’s a way of thinking that people in the east don’t utilize as much, and
especially people in earlier centuries. There’re not so bombarded with
the type of thinking we are affected with in the modern west.
The problem is these ways of thinking often become automatic in us
because it’s the way we’re taught to think in our society, and the way
we hear other people thinking. Here are the 10 ways for you to
consider how you think – and hopefully guard against.
Rational Minded. We're so much more head-driven today than
people were in the past, or that people were in earlier centuries. They
were more heart-driven than head-driven. They were more relational-
minded, and not nearly so much rational-minded as we are today.
Deductive Minded. We are very analytical today, and use our own
personal life experience as a foundation for our deductive logic. Other
people in other parts of the world were and are more inductive
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