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I’m maxxed out on maxxing – it’s time to embrace being good enough

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Being “maxxed out” used to mean reaching the limit on your credit card. And while I have reached my limit, it’s not financially (not yet, anyway). Rather, I’m maxxed out on “maxxing”, that suffix we haven’t been able to escape for the past couple of years and that has suddenly gone into overdrive with its latest iteration: whimsymaxxing. Thus far I have come across: looksmaxxing, sleepmaxxing, fibremaxxing, healthmaxxing, longevitymaxxing, nothing-maxxing (yes, you read that right), cyclemaxxing, grandmamaxxing, pheromonemaxxing – and do not get me started on friction-maxxing. That last one is the act of making your life actively harder in order to stop being such a soft, snowflakey member of whatever generation came after the last truly hardcore generation, which, as we all know, was X. If you’re not insert-noun-of-your-choice-maxxing, you’re apparently a lazy, feckless non-influencer who will never achieve glass skin, reach your recommended yearly intake of fibre in one day or have t

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