His stress went up as the quality of his work went down
Throughout my life and career, I’ve always noticed a positive correlation between the level of stress and the quality of the work. Like Naval Ravikant says, work like a lion who sits leisurely and waits for the ideal hunt.
It was like he was majoring in minor activities…
Instead of spinning his wheels trying to get everything done, he could get the right things done.
Less but better.
In many cases we can learn to make one-time decisions that make a thousand future decisions so we don’t exhaust ourselves asking the same questions again and again.
The way of the Essentialist means living by design, not by default.
