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#438 - Michael Easter - Learn To Embrace Discomfort

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Is There a Parkinson's Law of Suffering?

In life, if you don't have that many things going wrong, you just magnify in on things that are ever so slightly sub optimal until they become this huge, big problem. So it's a lope around productivity. And it says, work expands to fill the time given for it. If you have three months to complete an assignment, the likelihood is that you are going to do the assignment ten minutes before it's due toin wright. It's one of the reasons that time blocking as a productivity strategy is useful,. You create time bounded constraints around different bits of work that you need to do. Do gat.

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