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121. Solve Problems Before They Happen with Dan Heath

The Greg McKeown Podcast

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The Curse of Being in a Tunnel

If you can stop something up stream, it is easier than dealing with the thousand unresolved problems down stream. Tunnelling is this menon where when we have a scarcity of resources or time, we we kind of give up trying to systematically solve all our problems. And so i think that's what often holds people back. You know, when i tell these simple stories about relationships or parking lots or whatever, it seems almost magical. But but  the reason it's hard to embrace that magic is because i think for a lot of us, Our natural state is, i in that tunnel that almost blinds us to any other reality.

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