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"Most traditional leadership training or coaching aims to change the way you think, asking you to reflect on who you are and who you’d like to become.
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your current way of thinking about your job and yourself is exactly what’s keeping you from stepping up. You’ll need to change your mind-set, and there’s only one way to do that: by acting differently.
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Aristotle observed that people become virtuous by acting virtuous: if you do good, you’ll be good. His insight has been confirmed in a wealth of social psychology research showing that people change their minds by first changing their behavior. Simply put, change happens from the outside in, not from the inside out.
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“Adults are more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking than to think their way into a new way of acting.”
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Paradoxically, we only increase our self-knowledge in the process of making changes. We try something new and then observe the results - how it feels to us, how others around us react - and only later reflect on and perhaps internalize what our experience taught us. In other words, we act like a leader and then think like a leader."

Trechos retirados de "Act like a leader, think like a leader" de Herminia Ibarra.