- 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.
- If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.
- Avoid the undisciplined pursuit of more