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148: Savoring the Moment, with Chris Bailey

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The Ship Is Sinking, and I Need to Figure Out What Needs to Happen

Make a list of everything that you have on your plate. And ask yourself, if i can only do one thing on this list, day in, day out, every single livelong day, which one of these things allows me to deliver the most value and make the biggest difference? Then you can pick a second or third but stop after around three or four. You'll find that your marginal productivity begins to fall off of a cliff after that point. It's far less importantt the things that remain in that text ad of file, on that sheet of paper usually support our work. The more intelligence we throw at something, the more productive we become. When we do knowledge work for living

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