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

Modern Wisdom

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The Only Thoughts You Should Never Have More Than Once

The only thought that you should ever have more than once are thoughts that you choose to think, that you want to think. I'll get a thought, get rid of it and get it again within the space of minutes. You will speed up the process if you apply this principle of externalizing that so that some part of your trust in yourself can be restored. It's not just par for the course, that's not just standard operating procedure,. So that when you're not so, not so smart, you're kind of dumb and thick, you actually do smart things.

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