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#188 - David Allen - The Art Of Stress-Free Productivity

Modern Wisdom

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The Number of Opportunities in Your Life Is a Distraction

To me, social meeting is like a cocktail party. I really like the idea of the fact that the number of opportunities we have has up regulated this ambient anxiety. So it then challenges and then triggers the creative thinking in your brain to produce some sort of a new result or someor o different way to do that. It happened because the people figured out how to get what you're drinking in that kind of can. And so innovation doesn't happen by people who went out to be innovative. It came it came about by people trying to figure out, ok, here's i, here's here's an issue, here's an opportunity,. Here's something we need to have."

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