Stop chasing life goals and start trying tiny experiments to learn from instead. “Chasing goals doesn’t work for life’s most important questions — career, relationships, health. It’s like locking in your answer before you have understood the question.”
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Anne-Laure is awesome, I bought her book (an actual, physical book (ha), Tiny Experiments) after seeing her on this video on YT from BigThink
https://youtu.be/ubMghRYqk8o?si=YaEgcBODui0BRZ6n
As Kim mentioned above, Anne-Laure Le Cunff wrote a book that this article was based on: Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World (Amazon).
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