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Dopamine, perfectionism, and the lost craft of completion

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Abby Ilardi Lowry
Aug 28, 2025
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I originally envisioned my project on “living deeply” as the premise of a book. In fact, I have a Google Doc from 2019 with pages of bullet-pointed ideas for “The Live Deeply Project Book,” so clearly this is something that has been rattling around my brain for a long time. I dreamed of writing the next Eat, Pray, Love. …

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