There are a few phrases in life that always make you adopt a mental brace position. Like if someone ever starts with, ‘Let me give you some feedback…’ then you’ll instinctively feel your buttocks clench and your lower back lean forward against the mental seat in front.
If you’re reading this, you’re probably the same. After all, it’s always been the Type A personality’s bogeyman. But this fear has spread in recent decades, with the rise of a productivity-obsessed society. Now, ‘sub-optimising’ in life is every Millennial’s worst nightmare – as if our lives were merely new product lines at constant risk of underperforming in their export markets.
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