Slow Productivity
A busy calendar and a busy mind will destroy your ability to do great things in this world. If you want to do great things—whether you’re a musician or entrepreneur or investor—you need free time and a free mind.
Naval Ravikant • Be Too Busy to ‘Do Coffee’
Rather than wait passively, "wait for it" requires that you do three things while you wait:
1. Think about what you're waiting for.
2. Visualize what it will look like.
3. Talk to others about it and seek advice.
1. Think about what you're waiting for.
2. Visualize what it will look like.
3. Talk to others about it and seek advice.
Emotionally Intelligent People Use a Surprising 3-Word Phrase ...
There is truly a bottomless pit of advice on how to do work faster, harder, and more efficiently, and all of these ideas have been comforting to me at various times in my career. Now, having made myself sick living like that, I find myself looking for new advice on how to adhere to some other approach, one that does not focus primarily on beating t... See more
Rachel Katz • Giving Up Hustle Culture Doesn't Mean Giving Up
**Enjoy the Journey**
- Enjoy the journey itself, not just the destination.
- Success is a starting point, not an end point.
Snipped from Creator Science - #224: I cannot emphasize this enough [Voice Memo].
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- Enjoy the journey itself, not just the destination.
- Success is a starting point, not an end point.
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"There are a million opportunities. Things to say 'no' to, that you would've begged to have the opportunity to say 'yes' to only two years ago. So you're permanently readjusting the sensitivity on what constitutes a ‘hell yeah’. What you would have begged for yesterday is something you now need to learn to say 'no' to today."
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“If you don’t save a bit of your time for you, now, out of every week,” as she puts it, “there is no moment in the future when you’ll magically be done with everything and have loads of free time.” This is the same insight embodied in two venerable pieces of time management advice: to work on your most important project for the first hour of each d... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
"I frequently worry that being productive is the surest way to lull ourselves into a trance of passivity and busyness the greatest distraction from living, as we coast through our lives day after day, showing up for our obligations but being absent from our selves, mistaking the doing for the being." — Maria Popova
“I rarely have good ideas.
To overcome this limitation, I think about one topic (like habits) for an unreasonable amount of time. Then, I revise, revise, revise until only the best stuff remains. It’s slow, but it works.
You can either be a genius or you can be patient.”
To overcome this limitation, I think about one topic (like habits) for an unreasonable amount of time. Then, I revise, revise, revise until only the best stuff remains. It’s slow, but it works.
You can either be a genius or you can be patient.”
jamesclear.com • 3-2-1: On attracting luck, taking risks, and the ineffectiveness of anger | James Clear
"If it's not a Hell Yes, then it's a NO."
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