Sublime

“Working harder had been the solution to every problem,” McGinnis said. But all of a sudden, the marginal return of working harder was, in fact, negative.

SEPARATE THE DECISION FROM THE RELATIONSHIP

Constraints, he is told, are the obstacles holding the whole system back.

An Effortless Summary

It’s crucial, Mariam says, to seek “a different perspective on a given story, one that would shed the light on the topic in a fresh, different or thought-provoking way.”

if you are determined to prioritise your own life you can.

something called “the endowment effect,” our tendency to undervalue things that aren’t ours and to overvalue things because we already own them.

The way of the Essentialist, on the other hand, is to use the good times to create a buffer for the bad.

“Of all the things that can boost emotions, motivation, and perceptions during a workday, the single most important is making progress in meaningful work,”