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The Productivity Killer: Caring Too Much About What Others Think
So often, I find myself walking the line between rational thinking and sounding like a conspiracy theorist when I talk about how people strategize to get ahead. But the truth is, people are actually very predictable—we follow systems and social expectations almost without thinking. Look at how we drive; we don’t randomly swerve into the other lane, even though technically, nothing is stopping us.
And yet, so many of us hold back from doing things that could move us forward—not because others are actually thinking about us, but because we believe they are. That fear of judgment is one of the…
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