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    The Art of Doing Just Enough at Work

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    Discover why treating your job as purely transactional—not your identity—might be the secret to having energy left for a richer life outside the office.

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    If you're not pouring your entire soul into your job, you actually have some soul left for everything else. You are not your job title; you are a whole person who happens to have a job.

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    Just do enough at work and instead focus on enjoying life outside work

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    The Permission to Be Average

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    The Science of Enough

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    The Art of Strategic Mediocrity

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    The Freedom to Get Good at Things

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    The Ripple Effect of Boundaries

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