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When spontaneity requires too much effort

I spent an hour crafting the perfect witty response to someone's text and then felt exhausted by how much I had calculated something that should have been natural.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The over-cultivation of natural responses reveals how disconnected we have become from our own authentic impulses.

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