I recommend reflecting on your experience with this chapter’s exercise before continuing. You can reflect about anything you found relevant, but here are some questions you may want to consider:

Did you feel more able than last time?

Did the skills start taking root?

What did it feel like?

Where and how might you apply your experience in the rest of your life?

Data from Exercise

To sense a counterproductive belief and deliberately change it is one of the most effective skills in leading yourself. This chapter’s exercise is to repeat Adopt a New Belief in a more challenging situation. Experience has shown me how much more people learn the second time. We’ll apply the skills you learn in leading yourself to leading others, so your effort here will reward you for the rest of the book and every time you lead.
What Makes a Belief More Challenging to Change?
A few things make a belief more challenging to change. The main ones are:
It creates more intense emotions, Other beliefs depend on it, It takes longer to change.
If you do this exercise for one week, try to pick a belief that works on a time scale of about a week or less.

What to Do

Find a new emotion coming from a new belief to change, where the belief is more challenging to change than last time. Follow the same steps as last time with that greater challenge:
1. Find a belief that leads to emotions you don’t like.
2. Think of emotions you would prefer in that context.
3. Think of a belief that would create one of the emotions you prefer.
4. Consciously and deliberately think the new belief.