106 / 100 Ways to Motivate Others can choose another if you want. You can choose another job, or you can choose another perception. You are free." Be willing to teach your people how to debate them- selves. Forget that it's supposed to be a sign of insanity to be talking to yourself. Because the truth is that when we question our own thinking, we start to elevate to new lev- els of thinking. We start to really accomplish things if we have enough courage to question our own thinking. Here are some questions we might want to ask ourselves, for beginners: "Is that really true? Is my manager really out to get me? Is this really happening? Is this really a bad opportunity? It might be, but is it really? What else could I say about it? What would be a more useful way to inter- pret it?" We can teach people to question everything they have labeled as negative.