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In praise of hard, tedious work
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In praise of hard, tedious work

ByJosh Bernoff September 30, 2019May 3, 2023

You know the kind of work I mean. It demands skills you don’t have. It’s slow. It’s disagreeable. And you spend half your time taking breaks, complaining, and avoiding it, because it’s just soul-sucking labor. That work is more valuable than you realize. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi writes about flow, the state you attain as you work…

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