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#662: The Art and Science of Creating Good Luck

The Art of Manliness

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Are You Focused on a Goal or an Idea?

The idea of having a narrow focus and like goals or functional fixedness, was the newspaper one. The experiment showed that you get so focused ona goal or an idea that you you miss other opportunities which might even be better exactly. And it's really something it comes back also to, i think, when we talked about earlier, around this idea of how do we have that kind of sense of where we going, but ire also open for these kind of unexpected things?

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