Can tweaking small parts of your speech habits make you more successful? Based on his life experiences, Bernard Roth, a professor of engineering at Stanford University and the director of its design institute, thinks that it can.
In his new book, “The Achievement Habit,” Roth, offers two verbal shifts that can shift how you think about the world, and thereby improve your life.
Instead of Saying ‘but’ Say ‘and’
When you sandwich the word “but” between two activities, you’re holding them as mutually exclusive, and therefore preemptively shutting down the possibility of doing both a the same time. Roth gives the example of someone who says that they want to go to the movies, “but” they have work that day.
