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Friday, July 29 2016. Issue #83
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How to Think About Your Career | Medium
Your career is defined by your skills and how you’ve used them, not by any external measure of your progress. It’s common to think of your career as your level within the company, or how much money you make, or your title, or..
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What Stress Can Do for You | Psychology Today
A few months ago the DO Lectures series asked me to contribute a piece to a collection of essays on stress—on a tight, stressful deadline. It just released the collection as The Stress Report, “a modern compass for a new, smarter,..
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How to Change Your Personality | The Atlantic
Almost everyone has something they want to change about their personality. In 2014, a study that traced people’s goals for personality change found that the vast majority of its subjects wanted to be more extraverted, agreeable, emotionally stable,..
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The Danger of Making a Backup Plan | 99U
Whatever your creative ambition is, you know it could fail. Tough, but true. Your book proposal might get rejected, your start-up might tank. Your client pitch might fall flat. That’s an uncomfortable prospect for anyone, and a sensible antidote....
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Procrastinate Better | The Atlantic
Why is it that the more work I have to do, the more the internet beckons me into its endless maw of distraction? Oh Lord, I will say, appealing both to myself and to whatever blog-god might be listening, I have an hour...
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How Exhaustion Became a Status Symbol | New Republic
Exhaustion is a vague and forgiving concept. Celebrities say they’re suffering from it when they go to rehab and don’t want to admit to depression or addiction. You can attribute your low mood or your short temper to...
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