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Why Giving Up Is Sometimes the Best Way to Solve a Problem
By Tim Herrera — 2019
"The real problem, we finally realized, wasn’t the one we were trying to solve. It was that we were so focused on finding a solution that we never stopped to question whether we should even be doing the thing causing us problems in the first place."
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