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You admit that you’d never be satisfied with an average life—you long to excel, and you know it. You acknowledge just how much you thrive by being pushed—you need a challenge or your boredom risks tipping over into a depressive episode. And you stop playing small and denying your gifts—you were born to shine, and you can feel it.
The Perfectionist’s Guide to Losing Control
Katherine Morgan Schafler
most knowledge workers who claim to single task are actually primarily working on one thing at a time, but punctuating this work with a frequent series of *just checks* (quick glances at text messages, email inboxes, slack channels, social media feeds, etc…*just in case* something important has arrived).
This type of pseudo-focus might seem better than old school multitasking (in which you try to work on multiple primary tasks simultaneously), but attention residue theory teaches us that it might be just as bad.
A Productivity Lesson from a Classic Arcade Game
Study Hacks
In 22 Iditarods dating back to 1975, he 13 times finished in the top-10 and twice won the Leonhard Seppala Humanitarian Award for outstanding dog care, a prize awarded by a vote of the veterinarians who man the nearly two dozen checkpoints along the 1,000-mile trail from Willow to Nome.
A Quiet Champ
Craig Medred
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