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How To Build a Happy Life: Subtraction as a Solution

How to Age Up

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Do a Quarter of What You Didn't Know You Had

One of the most useful time-saving things that I've come up with, and Bob Sutton, he's a Stanford professor, the no-asshole rule author, he calls it the rule of haves. If you're saying do a quarter of what you were doing, you're telling them to subtract three quarters of the stuff. One of our studies actually, and this was when we were doing all these studies on people adding and subtracting,. We eventually got to this point where like, well, let's try to design somewhere. People just definitely will subtract.

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