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

TWO FACTORS THAT HOLD YOU BACK
There are two major factors that stand in the way of you using more
of your natural intelligence. They are 
psychosclerosis
and
homeostasis
.
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Psychosclerosis is another name for “hardening of the attitudes.”
This is experienced by a particular type of person who is rigid, in-
flexible, and unchanging. This is the kind of person who develops
fixed attitudes on a certain person or subject and then resists any at-
tempt to change his mind. This is often called the 
mechanical
way of
thinking.You probably know people who suffer from it.
The opposite way of thinking is more open and flexible. This is
called the 
adaptive
worldview. Adaptive people keep their minds
open to new information. They are curious and interested in new
ideas and developments. They are more concerned with 
what’s right
than with 
who’s right
. They are willing to abandon an old idea if
someone can come along and show them that a new idea has more
merit. They are more concerned that the new idea works to solve a
problem or achieve a goal than they are with being right themselves.
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