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The myth of perfect execution | Kasra's Blog

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I can't have it all but surely I can have a little bit of everything in exactly the right proportions?

This is the fourteenth post in my series of daily posts for the month of April. To get the best of my writing in your inbox, subscribe to my Substack . one of the things that gets in the way of both my happiness and productivity is that I imagine there is a way of executing things perfectly. it’s essentially a refusal to accept the reality of tradeoffs. there’s some nuance to it though. it’s not as simplistic as “I don’t believe there are tradeoffs.” I obviously recognize that choosing any one thing involves not choosing other things. time I spend reading is time I could have spent working out

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