2592: The Art of The Hard Part by David Cain of Raptitude
Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement
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The Secret Weapon to Hole Anxiety
The key to overcoming persistent difficulty is to locate this difficult moment and let yourself spend time there. A bit of familiarity with that moment is all you need to do to transform a long-term trouble into something routine and doable. The math makes it clear why this works. If you can go from spending in a given week 10 panics seconds in the hole to spending 2 patient minutes there, the task transforms. It loses its ability to defeat you psychologically because you no longer treat it like a monster.
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