The Power of Choice

Reframing Hard Things to Work for You

While rereading a personal Top 10 book, Do Hard Things, the theme of “choice” keeps coming up as a key part of overcoming challenges. Steve Magness, the author, references multiple studies run with either mice or dogs or social experiments with people where they were faced with an issue and given a choice to deal with it…or not. Apparently, when given the ability to choose –to make something happen by our own free will– it rewires how we view challenge, approach it, and ultimately deal with it.

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