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University of Chicago brain scientists Minjung Koo and Ayelet Fischbach have come up with a plausible reason why you have trouble getting things done, if you have trouble getting things done. It’s because you focus too much on what you’ve done already (“to-date thinking”), and not enough on what what is left to do (“to-go thinking”). To succeed in life and achieve your dreams you have to cut out all the to-date thinking, STAT: