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The Hidden Art Of Reinventing Yourself - Matthew McConaughey - #863
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Balancing Type A & Type B People
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Culture celebrates David Goggins and the underdog training montage. Nobody makes the movie about the type-A overachiever who needs to log off Slack and learn to rest. But that's a real problem — and the fact that we give it less sympathy doesn't mean it's less damaging.
McConaughey asked an 80-year-old Italian woman how far she swam each day. She looked at him blankly: 'I swim until I don't want to swim anymore.' He'd asked a Western question to a non-Western person. The confusion she felt was the whole diagnosis.
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