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Speaker 1: Apote production. Hi, I'm Jennifer Cray. Welcome to your evening mantra.

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Speaker 1: If it's safe to do so, close your eyes or

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Speaker 1: lower your gaze. Relax your eyes, relax your ears, relax

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Speaker 1: your jaw, relax your shoulders down, and bring your attention

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Speaker 1: to your breath, drawing your breath down into your heart.

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Speaker 1: It's better to be kind than to be right. You've

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Speaker 1: probably heard this a thousand times or more. Isn't it

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Speaker 1: all so important to be right? Apparently, even people who

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Speaker 1: think they're right are often wrong. Dale Carnegie, in his

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Speaker 1: book How to Win Friends and Influence People, says that

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Speaker 1: when Theodore Roosevelt was in the White House, he confessed,

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Speaker 1: if he could get at right seventy five percent of

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Speaker 1: the time, he would reach the highest measure of his expectations.

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Speaker 1: If that was the highest rating that one of the

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Speaker 1: most distinguished men of the twentieth century could hope to obtain.

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Speaker 1: What about you and me? He follows with, if you

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Speaker 1: can be sure of being right only fifty five percent

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Speaker 1: of the time, you can go down to Wall Street,

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Speaker 1: make a million dollars a day, buy a yacht, and

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Speaker 1: marry a chorus girl. And if you can't be sure

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Speaker 1: of getting it right even fifty five percent of the time.

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Speaker 1: Why should you tell other people that they're wrong? Good point?

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Speaker 1: By stubbornly gripping onto expectations, expecting nothing less than perfection,

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Speaker 1: and pointing out short faults, you are only setting yourself

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Speaker 1: up for failure and loneliness. One day, you'll get it wrong.

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Speaker 1: Would you prefer it to be pointed out? Or would

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Speaker 1: you prefer kindness? Surrender expectations and perfectionism to release the

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Speaker 1: grips on you and on others. Today's mantra, I prefer kindness.

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Speaker 1: Repeat to yourself, either out loud in your mind, I

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Speaker 1: prefer kindness. Follow us on Instagram at your morning mantra