Quotes About Balance

more often than not, the cumulative cost of the noncrucial things we clutter our lives with can far outweigh the small benefits each individual piece of clutter promises.

David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: "[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

Working right trumps finding the right work

Craftsmen like Furrer tackle professional challenges that are simple to define but difficult to execute—a useful imbalance when seeking purpose. Knowledge work exchanges this clarity for ambiguity. It can be hard to define exactly what a given knowledge worker does and how it differs from another: On our worst days, it can seem that all knowledge work boils down to the same exhausting roil of e-mails and PowerPoint,

Having a casual conversation with a friend, listening to music while making dinner, playing a game with your kids, going for a run—the types of activities that will fill your time in the evening if you enforce a work shutdown—play the same attention-restoring role as walking in nature.

Reason #3: The Work That Evening Downtime Replaces Is Usually Not That Important

Digital minimalism

a New York Times column on the topic, David Brooks summarizes this reality more bluntly: "[Great creative minds] think like artists but work like accountants.

Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you will never find time for the life-changing big things- Tim Ferriss

Busyness as a Proxy for Productivity

The pianist Glenn Gould once proposed a mathematical formula for this cycle, telling a journalist: "I've always had a sort of intuition that for every hour you spend with other human beings you need X number of hours alone. Now what that X represents I don't really know . . . but it's a substantial ratio.

How am I going to use this technology going forward to maximize its value and minimize its harms?

for every hour you spend with other human beings you need X number of hours alone.37 Now what that X represents I don't really know … but it's a substantial ratio.

The thesis of this final chapter in part one therefore is that "a deep life is not just economically lucrative but also a life well lived

Sosyal medya üzerinde çal??an ve dersler veren bir akademisyenin sözlerini al?nt?layacak olursam: Bu kadar çok insanla irtibat halinde olmam?za gerek yok.

balance this profit against the costs measured in terms of "your life." How much of your time and attention, he would ask, must be

I met Tyler roughly a year after his minimalist decision to leave social media. He was clearly excited by how his life had changed during this period. He started volunteering near his home, he exercises regularly, he's reading three to four books a month, he began to learn to play the ukulele, and he told me that now that his phone is no longer glued to his hand, he's closer than he has ever been with his wife and kids.

Biz insanlar, geli?mek için yaln?zl??a ihtiyaç duyuyoruz ve son y?llarda fark?nda olmadan bu kritik davran??a hayatlar?m?zda sistematik olarak daha az yer verir hale geldik. Velhas?l?kelam, ?öyle de denebilir: ?nsan devreleri, sürekli ba?lant? halinde olacak ?ekilde ba?lanmam??t?r.

To summarize, if you want to eliminate the addictive pull of entertainment sites on your time and attention, give your brain a quality alternative.

schedule in advance the time you spend on low-quality leisure.

If you leave me alone for a day . . . I'll have a joyful time rotating between carpentry, weight training, writing, playing around with instruments in the music studio, making lists and executing tasks from them.

You must be careful to choose a philosophy that fits your specific circumstances, as a mismatch here can derail your deep work habit before it has a chance to solidify.

When you work, work hard. When you're done, be done.

We justify many of the technologies that tyrannize our time and attention with some tangential connection to something we care about.