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What things in life *shouldn't* we optimize? (with Christie Aschwanden)
Clearer Thinking with Spencer Greenberg
Optimizing From a Quantitative Aspect
There's something like unappealing about even the idea of thinking of them in terms of optimization. I think that there is sort of instinct to put more importance, put more into things that are quantifiable when sometimes the really important things can't be measured with a number. When it comes down to figuring out whether you're rested and recovered and ready to perform again or recovered from a hard effort or a performance, the best measure is just your mood and how you're feeling. And that's not something that you can measure on a watch. It's notSomething that you can put a number on. But we tend to give less credence to feelings and to things that are more of a
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