Sources

- Long version of her Ted Talk

- Auch wenn sie in der Carnegie Hall auftreten, Wettbewerbe wie »Jugend forscht« gewinnen oder Schachmeister werden - die tragische Wahrheit lautet: Übung macht zwar den Meister, schafft aber nichts Neues.

- You have to find your way to go back home again. That is whatever you love more than yourself.

- Vulnerability is not weakness and that meth is dangerous

- Advice: Nothing is easy. Nothing is free. You have to pay the price for success.

- She became resilient, she knew she could do it. Applied → Now she is doing it

- No one is believing in you if you don't

- You can not be creative just sitting down → Go for walks, that's were the writing happens

- Confidence can be developed over time - Brain controls body; And Body controls our Brain - More: Click on Page

- Bore-Out; Langeweile im Job - Auslöser: Dauerhaft nichts zu tun, Monotonie, Intellektuelle Unterforderung, Sinnlosigkeit der Arbeit

- “In times of uncertainty, your habits can ground you. When you feel overwhelmed, practice 1 minute of mindfulness. When you feel restless, do a 1-minute workout. When the world seems uncontrollable, focus on what you can control.”

- "Where you spend your attention is where you spend your life."

- “Stop worrying about how long it will take and get started. Time will pass either way.”

- Your birth certificate does not say, that life is easy

- Contrast based error: Magician steels your watch by “swamping” the wrist pressure by creating a high-contrast touch pressure elsewhere.

- Celebrated for their ability to simplify an otherwise overwhelming number of traits

- People with proactive personality are relatively unconstrained by situational forces, tend to set high standards, and harness all available resources into achieving those standards

- Research has shown that personality may be predictive of many aspects of life

- “So be afraid! And then do it anyway!

- Self-compassion can help foster self-efficacy

- Good relationships keep us happier and healthier

- Because of different personality traits, individuals differ from one another in the way they interact with others.

- Taking action by causing change and not only reacting to change when it happens

- “Wouldn't it be ironic if everyone who got a radio up and running just sat around waiting for everyone else to transmit a message?”

- "Most people never pick up the phone and that’s what separate’s sometimes the people who do things from the people that just dream about them."

- The quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust in people, plans, or the future

- A wise friend told me this: Arrogance is the need to convince yourself and others that you're good at what you do. Confidence is being convinced of your strengths but fully aware of your weaknesses (which you know how to address),” she says.

- A person's belief that they can be successful when carrying out a particular task

- The quality of being vulnerable (= able to be easily hurt, influenced, or attacked), or something that is vulnerable

- It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one, than to have an opportunity and not be prepared