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Dethroner on the 1.0 of incremental weight loss
Merlin Mann | Oct 17 2006
Dear Grady, You Asshole at Dethroner Joel, situated in day two of Dethroner’s topical “weight loss” week, throws down on the need for what I like to call a 1.0; yeah, we all want to be perfect, but first we just have to suck less — in Joel’s case, that means the need to just intake less, even if it’s pre-packaged, non-organic, non-artisanal cuisine. The compulsion to be perfect, immediately and eternally, is one of the most profound causes of procrastination for the garden-variety human, and it most certainly gives each of us all the reason we’ll ever need not to even try. Or, as Joel puts it, to commenter “Grady:”
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