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#441: Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More

The Art of Manliness

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The Importance of Focus in Performance

People who focus, they tend to do better. But here's the twist: There were lots of people who focused, but they only apply sort of average effort to those things they focused on. And then there were some people who were really good at focusing doing very few things, but they obsessed over those few things. Those people performed far better than those who merely focused. I call the principle, do less than obsessed. That was the most important one in our study.

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