5 Impacting Quotes That Made Me Rethink My Entire Life.

A few words can completely change the way you think.

Michael Rauscher
Curious

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Life’s a continuous evolution. You don’t need a bold life change or rock-bottom moment to transform. Even one measly sentence you read in an article might change the way you think entirely.

The following quotes hit unexpectedly below the belt and shook me up. Here’s what I’ve learned from them.

“A person hears only what they understand.”

This quote from poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe messes with me every day. Someone can tell you a hundred times what is good for you. However, you won’t follow that lead if you don’t acknowledge it as a truth for yourself.

Your beliefs filter how you think about yourself, your surroundings, and the world. The problem is that we ignore most of the helpful information brought to us through conversations, tips, pieces of advice, or book recommendations.

This is because we are already bombarded with millions of bits of information each day. To keep ourselves from going insane, we skip 99.9 percent of them. We consciously experience only those on which our mind focuses.

This is why, when you think something, it appears that you are miraculously drawing it…

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Michael Rauscher
Curious

Self-Improvement • I share ideas, habits, and systems for more mental power, purpose, and performance • Find me on https://michaelrauscher.substack.com/