Do Nothing Quotes by Celeste Headlee
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Do Nothing Quotes by Celeste Headlee
These included Celeste Headlee’s Do Nothing, Anne Helen Petersen’s Can’t Even, Devon Price’s Laziness Does Not Exist, and Oliver Burkeman’s delightfully sardonic Four Thousand Weeks.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
The great scientists of past eras would have found our urgency to be self-defeating and frantic. They were interested in what they produced over the course of their lifetimes, not in any particular short-term stretch. Without a manager looking over their shoulder, or clients pestering them about responding to emails, they didn’t feel pressure to be
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
But it's also true that we're increasingly the kind of people who don't want to rest – who get antsy and anxious if we don't feel we're being productive. The usual result is that we push ourselves beyond the sane limits of daily activity, when doing less would have been more productive in the long run.
Oliver Burkeman • The three-or-four-hours rule for getting creative work done
(“We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life,” wrote Nietzsche, “because to us it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself.”)
Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
The relentless overload that’s wearing us down is generated by a belief that “good” work requires increasing busyness—faster responses to email and chats, more meetings, more tasks, more hours. But when we look closer at this premise, we fail to find a firm foundation.
Cal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
have failed to recognize our great asset: time. A conscientious use of it could make us into something quite amazing.”