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Sep 2024
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How to turn your habits into something m...

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Do you brush your teeth before or after you take a shower? It’s a question author and Harvard Business School professor Mike Norton has asked countless people in his research to find out how intentional, repetitive actions – also known as rituals – create outsized meaning and purpose in our lives. Mike, Anne, and Frances discuss how rituals deeply inform our relationships, work lives, and views of the world while sharing a few of their own special rituals.

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