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The 3 Traps: Overearning

It can be easy to fall into the trap of doing more work than we should. It can be so troublesome that psychologists have coined it “Over-earning”.

We tend to invest lots of energy into things that don’t really matter. We might originally undertake a task to achieve a specific objective, but we can lose sight that we have achieved our goal and instead try to maximize whatever we can get.

Instead of spending time enjoying the rewards, we have earned we instead keep working for the sake of it.

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