There’s an easier alternative. We can establish upper and lower bounds.

Here is what I realized: behind almost every failure of my whole life I had made the same error. When I’d failed, it was rarely because I hadn’t tried hard enough, it was because I’d been trying too hard.

It’s not the noticing itself that’s hard. It’s ignoring all the noise in our environment that is hard.

Extreme complexity only increases the cognitive load, making us that much more prone to errors. So what we need is not more knowledge but new skills and strategies that allow us to apply that knowledge without taxing our working memory.

give us attention.

Being asked to do X isn’t a good enough reason to do Y.

It’s a far easier path for learning, growing, and making progress on what’s essential.

Do not do more today than you can completely recover from today.

Achieve a state of heightened awareness by harnessing the power of presence. Train your brain to focus on the important and ignore the irrelevant.