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The Thinking Mindset vs. The Doing Mindset: Pick One (And Only One)
Experiment with your deadlines
The proximity of a deadline can also activate different systems: the closer the deadline, the more your “doing” mindset is activated.
Change your deadlines to get into convergence, the doing mindset.
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