#Things to consider
- What if we stopped celebrating being busy as a measurement of importance? What if instead we celebrated how much time we had spent listening, pondering, meditating, and enjoying time with the most important people in our lives?
- Almost everything is noise. Very few things are essential. Your job is to filter through the noise until you get to the essence. Start off by assuming everything is noise. From there you’ll have to find the signal. Dieter Rahms coined this in a simple phrase: Weniger aber besser. 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.
- We have lost our ability to filter what is important and what isn’t. Psychologists call this “decision fatigue”: the more choices we are forced to make, the more the quality of our decisions deteriorates.
- Once we accept the reality of trade-offs we stop asking, “How can I make it all work?” and start asking the more honest question “Which problem do I want to solve?”