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🔑 The power of control in motivating our actions
💡 Why engaging deeply in personal projects could be your ticket to creating a successful startup
⌛️ When to push through and when to call it quits on your projects
🧘 How sustained engagement can change the way you think and work
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Top Articles
A roundup of the week's most popular articles and essays from Playtext.
1. How to Start Google (17 min)
Starting your own company can be a viable alternative to traditional employment. Engaging in personal projects and pursuing interests passionately can be the foundation for successful startups.
2. Stubborn Visionaries & Pigheaded Fools (8 min)
Knowing when to persevere with a project and when to halt efforts is hard. Instead of shooting in the dark, the article proposes a pragmatic approach focused on rapid decision-making, timeboxing, and objective evaluation of progress.
3. What Monks Know about Focus (10 min)
"Sustained engagement deepens our understanding of what we read by the changes wrought in ourselves through the very process of reading… the time given to working through those ideas, adopting and adapting, developing or discarding, changes our minds, changes us. It’s not about the wisdom we glean. It’s about what wisdom we grow."
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