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Scripting Life: Guilt, Work Anxiety, Attention and Health Span
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Each Newsletter will include: 3 Ideas & 1 Person who has scripted a purposeful life.
Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless.
- Daniel Nayeri, Iranian-American Author
Our exhausting tendency to grind without relief, hour after hour, day after day, month after month, is more arbitrary than we recognize.
It’s true that many of us have bosses or clients making demands, but they don’t always dictate the details of our daily schedules – it’s often our own anxieties that play the role of the fiercest taskmaster.
- Cal Newport, Slow Productivity
I don't know about you but I think I might be addicted to Instagram. In between tasks, I find myself reaching out for the phone to scroll aimlessly. Here are some tips to increase your attention span.
Dr. Peter Attia, the Medical Doctor who amplified his reach (by breaking out of the usual mould) If you've recently heard of the word, "health span" mixed in with longevity talk, it's thanks to Dr. Peter Attia. The Oxford Dictionary defines HEALTH SPAN as the part of a person’s life during which they are generally in good health. After Dr. Peter Attia graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine, he trained at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in general surgery. He subsequently dropped out of his medical residency program to join consulting firm, McKinsey & Company. He followed his passion and created companies focused on preventative medicine education. Today, in addition to Doctor, you can call him a podcaster, author and entrepreneur.
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Every fortnightly issue takes a founder communication situation — submitted by a reader — and breaks it down through three lenses: the social script, the inner script, and what to actually say. Plus a pop culture parallel you probably didn't see coming.
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