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I promise my students that if they take the time to figure out their life’s purpose, they’ll look back on it as the most important thing they will ever have discovered. I warn them that their time at school might be the best time to reflect deeply on that question. Fast-paced careers, family responsibilities, and tangible rewards of success tend to swallow up time and perspective.

How Will You Measure Your Life?

Clayton M. Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon

Many people associate procrastination with laziness. But psychologists find that procrastination is not a time management problem—it’s an emotion management problem. When you procrastinate, you’re not avoiding effort. You’re avoiding the unpleasant feelings that the activity stirs up. Sooner or later, though, you realize that you’re also avoiding getting where you want to

Hidden Potential

Adam Grant

As I said above, for musicians to enter this space they have to sacrifice their dearest possession, the need to sound good. When practicing The Space, the performance is of only peripheral concern. Since it’s not always practical to sacrifice quality, the exercise is best done when one is not in performance, or “under the gun,” so to speak. But the effects of such practice can liberate a performance. Carelessness needs to be practiced! It opens channels that “carefulness” could never attract. (Fools rush in, where wise men never go .

Becoming the Instrument

Kenny Werner

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