Key points

Not all friction is bad or harmful. We need to eliminate the wrong type of friction and keep the right kind.

Learning a skill or solving a meaningful, complicated problem supports crucial growth.

Meaningless work, multitasking, and decision fatigue deplete us.

Reducing bad friction often seems boring and undramatic, but it is effective.

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What do you do when you feel like your entire life is friction? When everything is hard, heavy, and uphill?

It would not help us to pretend that optimizing our morning routines will fix the world's problems or make our workplaces fairer.

But here's what I've learned about doing the best we can when everything feels like too much: we always have a degree of control. We can eliminate so

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