Too Many Choices Leads to Anxiety - The cure: Work


	Too Many Choices Leads to Anxiety - The cure: Work

khilburn

3-16-2007 1:36 PM

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work, workaholic, stress

khilburn says:

Interesting article from the WSJ about how our plethora of choices can actually stress us out to the point that workaholism is a relief.

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