In practical terms, a limit-embracing attitude to time means organizing your days with the understanding that you definitely won’t have time for everything you want to do, or that other people want you to do—and so, at the very least, you can stop beating yourself up for failing.

Hector shook his head energetically. “There is no such thing as a short term fix in our business. There is never a way to improve productivity in the short term. When you’re all done, the productivity you will achieve will be the direct result of the long term investment made by those before you. And the only real impact you can have on productivit

it leads to the insight that meaningful productivity often comes not from hurrying things up but from letting them take the time they take, surrendering to what in German has been called Eigenzeit, or the time inherent to a process itself.