Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
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Almost Everyone I’ve Met Would Be Well-Served Thinking More About What to Focus On
If you look around, you’ll notice the people and organizations moving the fastest are the focused ones. Not only do they focus on a few ideas, but within the scope of those ideas, they are able to focus on the key variables.
Identifying the variables that matter comes with focus. When you commit to living in a problem, you understand things about i... See more
Identifying the variables that matter comes with focus. When you commit to living in a problem, you understand things about i... See more
Farnam Street • Focus to Win
The third principle is to resist the allure of middling priorities. There is a story attributed to Warren Buffett—although probably only in the apocryphal way in which wise insights get attributed to Albert Einstein or the Buddha, regardless of their real source—in which the famously shrewd investor is asked by his personal pilot about how to set p
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
two venerable pieces of time management advice: to work on your most important project for the first hour of each day, and to protect your time by scheduling ‘meetings’ with yourself, marking them in your calendar so that other commitments can’t intrude. Thinking in terms of ‘paying yourself first’ transforms these one-off tips into a philosophy of
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
Where I’d had huge success, I had narrowed my concentration to one thing, and where my success varied, my focus had too.