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Then there’s the matter of self-consciousness: virtually every time management expert’s first piece of advice is to keep a detailed log of your time use, but doing so just heightens your awareness of the minutes ticking by, then lost for ever. As for focusing on your long-term goals: the more you do that, the more of your daily life you spend feeling vaguely despondent that you have not yet achieved them. Should you manage to achieve one, the satisfaction is strikingly brief – then it’s time to set a new long-term goal. The supposed cure just makes the problem worse.
Why Time Management Is Ruining Our Lives
Oliver Burkeman
I’ve spent time refining prompts and even building my own bot to try and edit my own writing, and I’ve found the output lacking in almost every way when it comes to replicating or even streamlining the job I get paid to do. My brain, I’ve come to realize, is bad at constructing prompts, a skill that seems to have more in common with programming than it does prose writing. The experience can feel akin to being present for the invention of the iPod but hating music.
One Year In, ChatGPT’s Legacy Is Clear
Galaxy Brain
Humor is a natural stress-management tool. Reevaluating a situation to make a joke can help reduce negative thinking. The physical act of laughing reduces stress and stress-related physiological conditions.
The Art of Taking It Easy
Brian King
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