A near-life experience, rethinking willpower, the paradox of work and more in #TheEdit. 

• We are living in a time of polycrisis. If you feel trapped – you’re not alone. I hadn’t fully grasped how the idea of a better future sustained me. Now I, like many others, find it difficult to be productive – The Guardian 
• How to stop waiting and start living. It matters not at all whether we are holding our breath for a triumph or bracing for a tragedy. For as long as we are waiting, we are not living; an expectant near-life existence – The Marginalian 
• Willpower doesn’t work. This does. Angela Duckworth on what the Frog and the Toad may teach us; minimise the need for willpower in the first place – The New York Times (gift link) 
• Photos of China’s green energy transition. From crowded eastern cities increasingly topped by rooftop solar panels to remote western deserts where colossal wind farms sprawl across the landscape – Kottke 
• The paradox of work. Why it brings misery into our lives, but also meaning – Financial Times (gift link) 
• Your brain loves labels, even when they limit your potential. Labels help your brain make sense of a complex world, but when self-attached, those same labels can convince you that you’re unable to grow – Big Think 
• Building in the in-between. From crisis and disruption to imagination and responsibility; why business has a role to play while the future is still forming – The Beautiful Truth