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Personally I think he exactly hit the spot. A few years ago I regularly did things that I loved so I was achieving in various aspects and feeling happy although doing a lot. But later some interpersonal relationships went awry, the habit was broken and my life descended into a mess, without myself really realizing it. These two years I’ve been doing much less yet feeling much more burnt out and ineffective than I previously was, indeed because I have been kept from those regular things that I love for too long. Unfortunately I didn’t realize it in the beginning and probably even have already forgotten about it gradually. His wording of “epiphany” is exact.

Also, I think many of you here are simply misinterpreting what he means.

Why something you love and is important to you have to be something in your work?

Just as he himself says, he sets multiple rewards for himself, daily, weekly, monthly.

Where does he say that they are work-related at all?



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