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The Limits of Cognitive Understanding

January 6, 2024 | Renée Fishman

You don’t need to understand how to do something in order to do it. You simply need to do it repeatedly until it becomes your nature, and then trust that you know how to do it.

Filed Under: Coaching, Fitness, My Circus Life, Productivity Tagged With: action, analysis, coaching, doing, fitness, habits, lessons, My Circus Life, neural pathways, patterns, productivity, rational thought, repetition, trampoline, understanding

The Most Effective Question to Help You Understand Others

June 11, 2020 | Renée Fishman

Stephen Covey said “Seek first to understand, then to be understood.” How do we do this? By asking an effective question that opens the door to understanding others.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: compassion, connection, empathy, questions, understanding

The Medicine for Healing Hate

January 17, 2020 | Renée Fishman

A unique collaboration between two Brooklyn men provides us with the recipe for the medicine we need to heal the hate and polarization affecting our world.

Filed Under: Life Tagged With: anti-Semitism, Brooklyn, community, compassion, fear, Feel-Good Friday, hate, Jewish, Judaism, understanding

The Difference Between Understanding vs Knowledge vs Wisdom

June 20, 2018 | Renée Fishman

Here is the difference between understanding, knowledge, and wisdom, and what it really means to do “knowledge work.”

Filed Under: Productivity Tagged With: deep work, emotions, knowledge, productivity, understanding, wisdom

The Most Valuable Lesson I Learned From Tony Robbins

February 26, 2018 | Renée Fishman

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Since November 2010, I have attended 3 of Tony Robbins’ events as a participant and served on the event crew for his events 10 times. In that time, Tony Robbins has taught me many important lessons. One lesson stands out as perhaps the most important — and it wasn’t even something he said.

Filed Under: Business, Life Tagged With: Business Mastery, coaching, communication, effectiveness, skills, teaching, Tony Robbins, understanding

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