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Impatience is the best way to get faster at things. And across a surprising number of domains, being really fast correlates strongly with being effective.

June, 2017: my partner Eve and I are stuck at the visa-on-arrival desk in the domestic transfer wing of Bole International Airport, Addis Ababa. The rest of the transfer passengers, all Ethiopian, are waltzing past us to form a monster queue at passport control. As soon as I get my precious stamp, I sprint off to hold our place before more passengers sneak in front of us. Ten minutes later, Eve finds me, groggy from our redeye and nonplussed about navigating the Ethiopian visa desk on her own. "Why did you have to run off like that?!" Somehow, "so that we could wait at the departure gate inste

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