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​Managing Your Own Fear in Decision-Making — When you feel an urgent need to make an uncomfortable problem go away, ask yourself first whether your solution is about resolving the root problem or your own anxiety about it. This article was inspired by my friend Chase Murdock’s recent essay, Fear Corrodes.

What I'm learning

For ambitions to be attainable, habits must support them. When someone’s habits don’t align with their ambitions, assess them on the habits. Do your habits match your ambitions? Source: Shane Parrish​

If you have high standards for clarity, you will write more clearly. Having this standard forces you to notice and confront your unclear writing. What did I mean to say? Source: Paul Graham​

When we feel pain, our instinct is to retreat. But often we need to push through our discomfort and see the pain as a necessary step toward what we want. Rather than running from a relationship, a job, a workout, or a difficult person, we often just need to push past the pain. No pain, no gain. Next time you catch yourself retreating from pain, go towards what hurts a bit and see what happens. Source: Bob Glazer​

One of money’s most useful benefits is its ability to give you control over your time. Source: Morgan Housel​

What I'm thinking about

According to James Clear, there are three ways to categorize relationships:

1. Deepening. You know each other better this year than last.
2. Holding. Steady state, but mostly comfortable, familiar, and unchanged.
3. Drifting. Contact is fading, and the relationship is starting to slide.

Once you assess where the relationship stands, you can decide which ones to prioritize for deepening and which ones you are okay with letting drift.

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-Rick Lindquist

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