Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

particular point, they will measure it again. They will wait one, two,
and five minutes after the exercise, and again take your pulse. The
mark of how fit you are is how rapidly your heart returns to its rest-
ing pulse rate after exercise.
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BOUNCING BACK
With your personality, it is the same. The mark of how mentally
healthy you are can be measured by how quickly you recover after
experiencing a disappointment. Of course, a setback or reversal will
hurt. It always hurts if what you are trying to do is important to
you. But that’s not the main point. The main point is how quickly
you bounce back.Your recovery rate is everything. If you plan in ad-
vance for setbacks and problems, and preprogram your mind the
way we have described in this chapter, your recovery rate will be
much faster.
Your recovery rate is under your control. It is completely deter-
mined by the way you think about what happens to you. It is not the
event itself that affects you, but rather the way that you interpret the
event to yourself. And this is very much a choice you make.
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