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#54: Soothe the overwhelm with the 1% question

The Academic Imperfectionist

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How to Make Things 1% Better Every Day

You can't achieve big goals in an instant. You get there incrementally, one small improvement at a time. Don't turn the baby steps you need to take into things so insignificant that it's not really worth bothering with 1% better every day. Ask yourself whether you can do this right now. And I bet you're going to find it far easier to think of ideas than you would if you just carried on gazing wistfully at the distant life that you wish we were living.

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