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A useful question to ask yourself when youāre feeling overwhelmed is, āhow many of me are there?ā
The answer is obviously one, which can force a reset and a chance to consider how much weāre taking on and whether itās useful to our targets.
When we hit this point of realising that thereās an imbalance, we can start to delegate or de-prioritise what it is weāre trying to cram in.
Delegation is a scary word, but I get paid to talk about the benefits of collaboration, so weāre all aligned yessss?
And de-prioritising can become our best friends if what weāre working on doesnāt align to our long term goals. This feeling can be shared across your team (if at work) and assessing whether what youāre doing is actually important can be the best thing for a growing to-do list.
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ā¶ Hereās 10 thousand hours, donāt spend it all at once
I love the sentiment here ā we all believe that hyper focus on our one āthingā will ensure expertise, yet thereās evidence to suggest that deep work on a few things can actually allow us to become a multi-expert (I just made that word up). Itās when we are consistently distracted by myriad things that our focus and progress starts to stall.
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ā· Burnout runs deeper than too much work
In my circles at least, burnout is the word of the moment. Who isnāt? This article doesnāt take the word on face value, and attributes this feeling a lot more to our āobsessively passionateā nature, i.e. the need for approval. In this lens, it makes so much sense why people in the creative industries are feeling it.
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āø Keeping your (design) mind new and fresh
This is a nice short one about how to keep your ideas fresh when youāve hit a block by using the WOQE method ā watch, observe, question, and explore. Itās great to have these kind of techniques to fall back on, as itās so easy for a creative block to spiral and before you know it, youāve been staring at the same thing for 4 hours without progress.
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And the best thread of the week:
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Daniel Kahneman doesn't trust your intuition
Everyoneās favourite Nobel Prize winning psychologist, philosopherā¦ economist (?) is interviewed here about his lifeās work and take on what it means to be āwrongā. The main takeaway here really is that you need to know when to accept that you donāt know something, and work out how you can get to the point at which you do.
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Have a great week,
Luis Ouriach
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