🥱 I Wasted 5 Days of My Life

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• Author: Ali Abdaal
• Full Title: 🥱 I Wasted 5 Days of My Life

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If you’re a long-term Sunday Snippets reader, you know I like to apply the Reitoff Principle in these situations: If there’s a day where I get home from work a little late and I’m feeling pretty tired, I’ll just write-off the evening and lounge on the sofa reading a book or getting through my backlog of Peter McKinnon and Matt D’Avella videos, completely guilt-free. (View Highlight) Reitoff Principle

Moral of the story: give yourself a break on days when you know you won’t be productive. (View Highlight)

However, while your innate temperament influences you throughout your life, you have the ability to stretch your personality beyond your comfort zone and act in ways that don’t come naturally to you. (View Highlight)