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The most important thing to know about your tasks is WHY you need to do them. Connecting my TODO list items all the way to Maslow's categories of needs has resolved all of my task motivation, categorization and prioritization struggles.

Corollary, which you hear sometimes in investors' blog posts: not all problems are worth the effort, only valuable problems are.



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