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The science of personality and the art of well-being with Brian Little

WorkLife with Adam Grant

CHAPTER

The Dangers of Trivial Pursuits

People generate about 15 different projects. I used to turn trivial pursuits because some of them clearly seem to be trivial. But it didn't take long for us to realize that those trivial pursuits may, from the perspective of the pursuer, be pretty consequential. If you have vested everything in one project and you're rigidly unable to dissociate from that project when things are going wrong then problems may be ahead.

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