Chasing Excellence

Chasing Excellence

It's Not the Stimulus

Daily Chase #224

Mar 16, 2026
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a washer and dryer in a room
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Here’s a silly story to illustrate a point:

Imagine every time the dryer buzzes in your house, you freak out. You rush upstairs and yell. Stress fills the house. The kids get absorbed in the chaos of laundry day.

Twenty years later, those kids do their own laundry. The dryer buzzes. Their heart rate spikes. They feel anxious…

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