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The Brutal Truth You Need to Accept If You Want to Stop Feeling Constantly Overwhelmed
 No calendar hack or productivity app will help you if you don't accept this hard truth first.
If you feel there aren't enough hours in the day, there are a million and one gurus and companies out there willing to sell you a solution. They've got scheduling hacks, project management tools, and relevant research to offer. Some of this stuff is even useful. But even if you implement every good idea in the bunch, I've got bad news for you: You're still going to feel endlessly overwhelmed.
Is there no way out of feeling overwhelmed? There is, according to a handful of wise commentators, but it involves facing up to a brutal truth most of us go to great pains to avoid: You're never, ever going to have time to do everything you want to do.
Your problem is "too many needles."
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� | � |  | You're Not Fully Vaccinated the Day of Your Last Dose
 From the standpoint of protection, not a whole lot happens on day one of a vaccination regimen - which makes concern about infections detected around the time of vaccination unwarranted. In late December and January, social-media platforms were swarmed by a flurry of nervous headlines and sound bites documenting positive test results in recently injected health-care workers and politicians. But cases like these are entirely expected. The shot simply delivers a package of study materials to the body; immune cells must then internalize the information about the infectious invader, a complex process that unfolds over days or weeks.
Shortly after the vaccine is administered, these cells embark on a crash course in the coronavirus. Fast-acting immune cells inspect the shot's contents, then ferry the intel back to their specialized colleagues: B cells, the immune cells that make antibodies, and T cells, which can annihilate virus-infected cells, learn to zero in on the pathogen with laser-sharp precision.
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| � | | To Lead Better Under Stress, Understand Your Three Selves
 A year into a global pandemic which upended how we work and live, the complexity and intensity of the challenges many people are facing exceeds their emotional resilience. And the understanding what's happening in your body, mind, and emotions is at least as important to sustainable performance as the skills you bring to the work you do. The authors began to look more deeply at how we react to different levels of stress in our lives. They present here a roadmap for better stress management grounded in the premise that human beings don't operate from a single stable self. Rather, we unconsciously move between three primary selves - the child self, the defender, and the adult self - which vie for attention and control, depending on the demands we're facing.
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Why Robots Won't Steal Your Job
 According to the World Economic Forum Future of Jobs Report 2020, 85 million jobs may be displaced by the shift in labor between humans and machines by 2025, while 97 million new roles may emerge. These are the "jobs of the future," and they are actually better opportunities for early career professionals. Why?
- The more computers are trained to conduct high-repetitive tasks that are often assigned to entry-level employees, the more roles focused on complex tasks with competitive salaries will arise in their place.
- As new types of roles - roles that no one has done before - are created, young workers are less likely to be forced to compete with their seniors, and more likely to be pioneers.
- So, how should you prepare to land one of these roles? First, do a simple Google search. Include the name of your industry plus key phrases like "future of work," or "job trends in [industry]" to see what positions are up and coming in your area of interest.
- Next, figure out what skills you have to master to be a competitive candidate. You can find these within job descriptions, or by researching people in similar roles on LinkedIn.
- Finally, figure out what unique qualities you will bring to the table. Ask yourself: Which skills have I acquired over the years because of who I am, where I am from, or what I am passionate about? The ability to combine the new skills you have acquired with what makes you unique will help you build a resume that stands out.
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| � | | Reframe How You Think About Self-Care
 Many leaders tell themselves: "It's so busy, I can't afford to...(spend 7 hours sleeping, or stop to get lunch, or keep up my hobbies)." This framing, which casts investments in personal resilience as contrary to the best interests of an organization, is doing both you and your organization a great disservice. It's time to take those hackneyed words, "our people are our greatest asset," to heart. If you are an important asset, how could depriving, devaluing, and depreciating that asset by running it in harsh conditions, powering it with improper fuel, and neglecting routine maintenance possibly be good for your organization? Your resilience is a high-priority business issue if you're leading a team through the stress of our fast-paced world. When you invest in proper sleep, nutrition, exercise, and play, you'll have the self-control to manage your own reactions, the energy to be fully present for your team, the patience to listen and empathize, the wherewithal to make good decisions, and the stamina to keep it up for weeks or months. Investing in your resilience isn't indulgent; it's mission critical.
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| � | | Wanted: Smart Generalists
 In the early stages of a startup, founders recognize the value of a strong generalist. They're the Jack (and Jacqueline) of all trades who solves problems, connects dots, and advances projects nobody else owns. What they lack in expertise, they make up for in passion and natural talent.
So it's curious why so many founders seek out specialists for their first marketing hire (that, or an overqualified CMO).
I hear it all the time: "I need to hire the best [SEO/email/performance/demand gen/content] person out there. Know anyone?"
If a founder isn't super familiar or comfortable with marketing, it makes sense that they would want to lean into the parts that are easy to measure and evaluate ROI (SEO projects, email, digital advertising). But hiring a specialist off the bat in any one of these areas might be a mistake. That's because the most important thing in the early stages of your company is experimentation, and specialists are - by definition - biased. You don't know what your primary channels or levers for repeatable, predictable growth are yet, but a smart marketing generalist is the best option for getting you on the path to figuring that out.
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