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Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the “six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.”
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman
The new biology improves upon the standard Darwinian view of spontaneous mutations and random selection as the motors of species adaptations; it demonstrates that __circumstances themselves can shape how genes adjust to the environment. Said another way, our lives are what happens when life acts upon life.__
The Myth of Normal
Gabor Maté, MD
Economists often use the expression “economic pie” to describe the total value of all resources available for pursuing our goals, so any step that reduces waste would be said to make the economic pie larger.
Success and Luck
Robert H. Frank
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