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Mar 2020
8m 49s

Slow Burns

TIAGO FORTE
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Stop completing your projects via "heavy lifts" – grueling slogs of painful work where you create everything from scratch. There is another way – you can slowly gather ideas, in the background and over time, using "slow burns." Once the project gets underway, you'll already have a rich collection of interesting ideas, insights, examples, facts, and illustrations that you can easily combine together without burning yourself out.

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