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This carries over to social anxiety as well -- you tend to overthink what people think and such -- the more you do things the better you naturally get from experience as well.

If you're doing, do you have time to overthink?

> We tend to think/optimize in terms of time. But I've found it helpful to optimize for mental energy, which is often the limiting factor.

I love this. Very succinct and insightful.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31500342

Wonderful, thank you.

That article is from On Managing Yourself (2 vols) which is part of the HBR 10 Must Reads series. You will also find On Managing People (2 vols) and On Communication (2 vols) from the same series pretty useful.

https://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time