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Laughter actually releases endorphins. They are released to mask the pain we’re causing to ourselves as our organs are being convulsed.
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If the midlife droop is inevitable, just knowing that eases some of the pain, as does knowing that the state is not permanent.
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…shielding people is painful but often effective. Bosses who take the heat for their people build loyalty; when you take the heat for someone’s errors, they definitely owe you.
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In large part, we are what we do, and our identity is closely connected with whatever we’re focused on, including our careers, relationships, projects, and hobbies. When we quit any of those things, we have to deal with the prospect of quitting part of our identity. And that is painful.
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By learning from the painful experience of others, we can improve our ability to recognize a strategic inflection point that’s about to affect us. And that’s half the battle.
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…strategic inflection points, painful as they are for all participants, provide an opportunity to break out of a plateau and catapult to a higher level of achievement.
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…we gain the most by rationing the numbers of metrics we define as critical to any particular mission. The reason why this does not often happen so much is very simple: it requires the painful thinking to be done upfront.
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The highest net utility is the sweet spot… that set of steps that best combines the greatest reduction of work for the user with the lowest pain to adopt.
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…we so hate to wait that we risk our lives to avoid it. Waiting is painful. Slow hurts.
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The process of finding ideas and growing them, as painful and frustrating as it is, as rarely completed as it is, as demoralizing and depressing as it can be, is still the most advanced activity the human mind can engage in.
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