Arlan Hamilton's productivity hack is forgiveness.
"Arlan Hamilton's trick to getting stuff done isn't jotting things down on a planner or drinking more water: it's forgiving others.
"Hamilton, the founder of Backstage Capital and one of the few queer black women in venture capital, found that agonizing over the unfair ways she had been treated in the past kept her from doing her job....
"Hamilton made a decision to forgive the people who she felt wronged her — that way, she took control of the situation and wasn't as impacted by other peoples' actions."
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