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When you render the process more convenient, you drain it of its meaning.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Seek out novelty in the mundane.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
La «trampa de la eficiencia»
Oliver Burkeman • Cuatro mil semanas: Gestión del tiempo para mortales (No Ficción) (Spanish Edition)
the more firmly you believe it ought to be possible to find time for everything, the less pressure you’ll feel to ask whether any given activity is the best use for a portion of your time.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
‘Does this choice diminish me, or enlarge me?’
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
Truly doing justice to the astonishing gift of a few thousand weeks isn’t a matter of resolving to “do something remarkable” with them.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
He couldn’t decide what was important—what actually mattered—to him.
Ryan Holiday • Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent
The most effective way to sap distraction of its power is just to stop expecting things to be otherwise – to accept that this unpleasantness is simply what it feels like for finite humans to commit ourselves to the kinds of demanding and valuable tasks that force us to confront our limited control over how our lives unfold.
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.
“The more we place boundaries on the uncertainty… the more manageable the remaining ambiguity feels to our brains.”