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When organizing compulsions sabotage productivity

I spent four hours organizing my desk drawers today instead of working and now I am behind on everything and feel like a failure.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The mind has confused the appearance of order with actual peace, creating elaborate rituals that generate the opposite of what they promise.

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