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Author Brad Stulberg on peak performance strategies and overcoming OCD

Life Examined

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The Fountain of Youth

There's a reason that people love action movies and those tend to be the blockbuster movies. And then if you think of yourself as an action hero in your own life, I think that that's a big part to it. There's this common prevailing wisdom that you need to feel good to get going. But actually it's often the reverse. You need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good. If you can learn to take those feelings along for the ride and just force yourself to do something...you're on the path to healing.

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