There's No Such Thing as a Fresh Start
One antidote is to allow yourself to imagine what it might feel like to know you'd never fully get on top of your work, never become a really disciplined exerciser or healthy eater, never resolve the personal issue you feel defines your life's troubles. What if I'll always feel behind with my email? What if listening attentively to other people wil
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When you ship a new product, you can explain how it can be improved in the next version. When you draft a memo or a book chapter, you can point out what’s wrong with it. The modern world doesn’t call for finished products. It calls for works in progress, where perpetual improvement wins the game.
Ozan Varol • Think Like a Rocket Scientist: Simple Strategies You Can Use to Make Giant Leaps in Work and Life
Of course, change is certainly possible, but it is only sustainable within a fairly narrow window.
James Clear • The Paradox of Behavior Change
There will always be too much to do – and this realisation is liberating. Today more than ever, there’s just no reason to assume any fit between the demands on your time – all the things you would like to do, or feel you ought to do – and the amount of time available. Thanks to capitalism, technology and human ambition, these demands keep increasin
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