Why Everything Feels Like An Emergency

The Motivated Mind by Scott Lynch

Jan 12, 20269:57Health

Urgency used to mean something. A fire. A phone call in the middle of the night. Now it sounds like notifications, red dots, and emails that say “just checking in.” Nothing is actually wrong, and yet everything feels imm...

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