You Will Not Survive the AI Age if You Don’t Have a Personal Myth
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I can focus for 12 hours per day because I’m living my myth.
You Will Not Survive the AI Age if You Don’t Have a Personal Myth Recovering Overthinker May 03, 2026 1,387 64 241 Share I can focus for 12 hours per day because I’m living my myth. I wrote this in a recent post, and it attracted a ton of attention on both Substack and Instagram. Everyone would like to be able to focus more deeply and for longer. But most people are not familiar with the idea of having a personal myth. That’s why so many people got interested in what I said. “Here is the secret trick that will help me finally be more focused and productive,” most of them thought. However, the
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