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At the centre The valuable skill is stopping and recovering while the work is still unfinished, not the capacity to push yourself harder. Holds OBOliver Burkeman Read this korrent →

• Similar wording Finishing is as much a part of motivation as starting, and the two are separate capacities: plenty of energetic people never complete anything. Holds MHMasud Husain
• Similar wording Learning cannot happen in flow, because getting better at a skill means working beyond the level at which you can express it. Holds TWTommy Wood
• Similar wording You do not have to finish a project to be rewarded for it: being told 'well done' for one piece is itself a motivational pull that keeps the work moving. Holds MHMasud Husain
• Similar wording You only retain what you were pushed to your limit on: if learning feels like coasting, you are not learning. Holds CRCharan Ranganath
• Similar wording A machine doing your work better than you is no reason to stop doing it, because the point of the work was never that only you could do it. Holds LSL. M. Sacasas
• Similar wording Doing your best at a bad job is not for the boss: it is how the warm referral that gets the next job is earned, and slacking there cheats only yourself. Holds DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson
• Similar wording Working too hard is not burnout, it is tiredness; burnout needs your values to be out of alignment with the work. Holds NFNicole Forsgren
• Similar wording The struggle of making something is not an obstacle in front of the work; it is where the meaning comes from. Holds NCNick Cave