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The surprising secret to productivity
The surprising secret to productivity

If you’re American, chances are that you’re bad at resting.


It’s not your fault; it’s deeply engrained in American culture that we need to “earn” our rests.


But we have it backwards.


We can’t expect to be productive in order to earn our rests; we actually NEED rest FIRST in order to be productive.

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