Checklists, timers, stand-ups, speed reading, book summaries, and workflows are some of the efficiency tools that have come to dominate our lives. They are great tools for production and for getting things done. Yet, when we apply these same tools to the creative parts of our lives (arguably the more important parts of our lives), they are destructive and rob us of much of the value of these creative moments. 

What matters when you slow down is the experience and emotions you feel when you enter this state; it is quite different from the momentary fix of the dopamine you get from checking something off a list. 

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Anxiety about doing something is often caused by our need to complete something. If instead you focus on the process and try not for completion but for progress, you gain control over the situation. Instead of perfect completion, you are making progress.

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Work. Does it always have to feel like a grind, or can it feel like play? It turns out your thoughts make it so.

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There is the way you think the world is, and then there is the way the world really is. This is the ongoing battle for all of us: to live in the real world, the world where we get to choose what we want to do, even if it’s only for one hour a day.

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