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16 Rich Habits

Success

Stay away from accumulating credit card debt. Highlight those items on your list that involve a skill, and identify that skill. The most lucrative skill of all is worth 10 points. This post was originally published in October 2014 and has been updated for freshness and accuracy.

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The Mel Robbins Guide to Screwing Up

Success

In her book, The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success , Megan McArdle explains that we gain skills by practicing things because we’re strengthening the connection between the action and the reward. Our brains dose us with a feel-good chemical, dopamine, when we do something right. It might be heights or spiders or snakes.

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