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The combination of curiosity and lead time can convert any chore into a delightful, exploratory puzzle.
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The best cure for anger is, first of all, time; second is empathy. You have to allow yourself to feel the first burst of anger.
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It is hard to predict the success of a product ahead of time by measuring individual consumers’ preferences and then try to use these preferences to predict consumers’ future decisions.
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Hardness scares off the daydreamers and the timid, leaving more opportunity for those like us who are willing to take the time to carefully work out the best path forward and then confidently take action.
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Each of us is trapped in a place, a time, and a circumstance, and our attempts to use our minds to transcend those boundaries are, more often than not, ineffective.
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Among life’s cruelest truths is this one: Wonderful things are especially wonderful the first time they happen, but their wonderfulness wanes with repetition.
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Another way to beat habituation is to increase the amount of time that separates repetitions of the experience.
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Because time is such as slippery concept, we tend to imagine the future as the present with a twist, thus our imagined tomorrows inevitably look like slightly twisted versions of today.
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The antidote to leisure-time ennui is to pay as much attention to scheduling a productive evening or weekend as you do to your workday.
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Over time, a commitment to challenging, focused work and leisure produces not only better daily experience, but also a more complex, interesting person: the long-range benefit of the focused life.
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