The power of constraints with David Epstein
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The Planet Money podcast from NPR. I went to a writer's retreat after my last book came out and there was a question everyone had to answer, which was, what are you optimizing for this year? And I said autonomy. Fast forward a few years and I learned there's definitely such a thing as too much autonomy. Because I think I like caused myself to suffer in certain ways by over-indexing on freedom.
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