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The Resistance Paradox
When we accept resistance, resistance disappears.
When we accept our challenges, we’re able to start solving them.
When we face the fire, the fire can be extinguished.
Our resistance is an opportunity, or an ever-growing thorn in our side.
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The Failure Paradox
The more you’re prepared to fail, the more likely you are to succeed.
Failure beats stagnation, as failure breeds learning.
Learning breeds insights, and insights breed advantages that lead to success.
The faster you fail, the faster you’ll succeed.
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The Helping Paradox
The more you need help with something, the less others want to give it to you.
The less you need help, the easier it is to get.
People want to help those who have first helped themselves—or who display the appearance of self-sufficiency.
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The Icarus Paradox
The bird that flew too close to the sun burned.
Downfalls are triggered by the very elements that led to success.
Remember what bred success to avoid failure.
”Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.”
—Andy Grove
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The Service Recovery Paradox
Successfully fixing an issue with a product or service can lead to higher customer satisfaction than if no problem were to occur at all.
Trust is built quickly in compromising situations.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste.”
—Winston Churchill
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The Hegel Paradox
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
“We can learn from history, but we can also deceive ourselves when we selectively take evidence from the past to justify what we have already made up our minds to do."
—Margaret MacMillan
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The Friendship Paradox
On average, most people have fewer friends than their friends have.
People with more friends are more likely to be one of your friends.
In reality, it's a contradiction because most people believe they have more friends than their friends have.
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The Knowledge Paradox
The more you know, the less you can clearly explain.
Our inability to explain familiar concepts is a form of cognitive bias wherein experts often overestimate the ability of novices.
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The Easterlin Paradox
At a point in time happiness varies directly with income, but over time happiness doesn’t continue growing as income grows.
In other words, you think making more money will make you happier, but you’re wrong.
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The Business Dad Paradox
Technology has allowed us to become more efficient in our work.
Increased efficiency means more of the most precious commodity: time.
But time for what, exactly?
Usually, to do more work.
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