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Never explain: your friends don’t require it, and your enemies won’t believe you, anyway.

Never Explain. Your Friends Don’t Require It, and Your Enemies Won’t Believe You, Anyway

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So our first step in improving our outcomes is to train ourselves to identify the moments when judgment is called for in the first place, and pause to create space to think clearly. This training takes a lot of time and effort, because it involves counterbalancing our hardwired biological defaults evolved over many centuries. But mastery over the ordinary moments that make the future easier or harder is not only possible, it’s the critical ingredient to success and achieving your long-term goals.

Clear Thinking

Shane Parrish

reverse Parkinson’s Law. Work not only expands to fill the time allotted to it, but also contracts to fit within the time allotted to it.

The Way We're Working Isn't Working

Tony Schwartz and Jean Gomes

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