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These disparate findings leave some questions unanswered. “How on earth can you get a more than 30 point spread between them?” Mr. Bloom asked. “It all comes down to how workers are managed. If you set up fully remote with good management and incentives, and people are meeting in person, it can work. What doesn’t seem to work is sending people home with no face-time at all.”
What We Know About the Effects of Remote Work - The New York Times
Emma Goldberg
Whatever you wish to call it, there are two interweaving strategies for leaving this desolate place: (1) continually expand the range of your unhooking skills, and (2) connect with something that makes it worthwhile leaving.
The Happiness Trap
Russ Harris
As an experiment, I'd like you to try this out today:
• Notice as many good things that are happening as possible... they don't have to be huge: someone smiles at you, you accomplish a small task, you're cozy under a warm blanket...
• Stay with the feeling of each one for 10-30 seconds, making it more important and bigger in your mind.
• You can even imagine it as something that is sinking into you — perhaps a warm, glowy ball or a soothing balm over your heart.
Why Your Brain Fixates on the Bad Stuff
Rick Hanson
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