Control Over My Life
How I changed my life
1. I started writing online, even when no one was reading.
2. I started using the internet like a lab testing ideas, aesthetics, and workflows to see what clicked.
3. I began treating every conversation as either energy-giving or energy-draining, then designed my life around the givers.
4. I started screenshotting things that... See more
1. I started writing online, even when no one was reading.
2. I started using the internet like a lab testing ideas, aesthetics, and workflows to see what clicked.
3. I began treating every conversation as either energy-giving or energy-draining, then designed my life around the givers.
4. I started screenshotting things that... See more
GREG ISENBERG • Tweet
none of this was ever going to work. I would never succeed in marshaling enough efficiency, self-discipline, and effort to force my way through to the feeling that I was on top of everything, that I was fulfilling all my obligations and had no need to worry about the future. Ironically, the realization that this had been a useless strategy for
... See moreOliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The essential trouble, as Rosa tells it, is that the driving force of modern life is the fatally misguided idea that reality can and should be made ever more controllable – and that peace of mind and prosperity lie in bringing it ever more fully under our control.