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How to strengthen your willpower
How to overcome temptation and distractions
The role of motivation in willpower
“Greediness is a hole that makes you more and more shallow every passing day.”
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“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.”
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“Character is like a tree, and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.”
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“There are but three events in a man’s life: birth, life and death.
He is not conscious of being born,
he dies in pain,
and he forgets to live.”...
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Working deeply, due to its effortful nature, is the very thing most of us don’t want to do. Add to this an environment and culture that makes deep work difficult, and a finite amount of willpower that gets depleted as we use it, and you have a recipe for shallow work. To make deep work a staple i...
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