The Uncertainty Mindset 2019-2020

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#11: Productive discomfort

vaughn2nd January 2021 at 2:50pm

This issue is about how we avoid uncomfortable situations even when they are necessary for personal growth—productive discomfort—and how to design your education, life, and career to create routines and habits that make you progressively better at being productively uncomfortable. Creating desperation by design like this is a form of self-therapy for developing the uncertainty mindset.

You can find it here: #11: Productive discomfort