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Stop Monitoring The Situation

How to become someone who actually accomplishes stuff

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Normie Macdonald
Jun 17, 2025
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I left twitter 3 months ago. It feels like it’s been a lot longer than that. It feels boring. Of course that’s kind of the point. I left explicitly because I wasn’t bored. Because at any given moment I could pull up my phone and be instantly entertained and satiated until an actual real world responsibility came along, at which point I would close my phone, only to resume the same habit minutes or hours later. In these three months, I’ve learned something critically important about myself, and by extension, all of you as well:

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