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            <title><![CDATA[You Don’t Need to Love Yourself]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:46:43 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[You Don’t Have to]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Oct 2025 08:26:38 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Storytelling Sucks. This Book Is Helping Me Fix It]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:31:29 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Importance of Wasting Time]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Apr 2025 20:32:08 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Cure an Optimization Craze]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 Jan 2025 23:00:42 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Small Book That Redefined My Life]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:08:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why We Will Always Feel Lonely]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 22 Oct 2024 15:15:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[‘This’ Is the Meaning of Life]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2024 22:26:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Goodbye, Atomic Habits]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Sep 2024 18:56:54 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Just Half-Ass It]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 28 Aug 2024 10:56:22 GMT</pubDate>
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