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Focus on the Work That Matters, Avoid Burnout, and Feel Confident About Tackling Any New Project

If you want to get something done, ask a busy person.

The Peter Principle is an old idea from management theory. It says that people rise to the level of their incompetence. While this idea is usually used to explain how people need to learn new skills after being promoted, it doesn’t have to be that complicated to be true. And it doesn’t just apply to people in a big corporation.

Most people rise to the level where they can no longer get things done because they burn themselves out doing so much. One of the linchpin skills to succeeding in ...

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