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Obsession

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Research demonstrates that people who are obsessed with their work put in longer hours yet fail to perform any better than their peers. They’re more likely to fall victim to both physical and emotional exhaustion.

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Managing risks… is a way of organizing the future, and surveillance is a natural offshoot of our now-obsessive efforts to control what’s coming around the corner.

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Without safety nets of trust or secure traditions… relations crumble into obsession and compulsion. – Anothing Giddens

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Initiative comes from obsession. The more infatuated you are with something the more likely you are to know (or want to find out) more about it.

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When expertise qualifies you, obsession mobilizes you in a way that runs circles around the experts.

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For many founders. this clear line of separation between aspiring entrepreneur and successful entrepreneur is a fixed, psychological obsession.

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Look to the future. Identify key skills. Obsessively develop those skills.

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Obsession in one are of life hurts another area, setting off a negative cascade of events and feelings that eventually unseats the high performer.

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