Consider the activities you engage in on an average day. Where do they fall on Csikszentmihalyi’s diagram? Are you pursuing growth in a healthy, sustainable way? We aren’t suggesting that you spend all of your time immersed in just-manageable challenges. Doing so is probably not very practical. Plus, you still need to recover in between bouts of stress for the effort to be beneficial. What we are suggesting, however, is that for the capabilities you wish to grow—whether they be financial modeling, portrait painting, distance running, or anything in between—you should regularly seek out
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