Ezra Klein’s Formula for a Good Day Involves These Four Things

When you wake up in the morning, whether you slept for five hours or ten, you’ve had a nice long break from the Busy Bandwagon and the Infinity Pools. This is a golden moment. The day is fresh, your brain is rested, and you have no reason to feel distracted yet. No news items to stress about, no work emails to stew over. Savor it. Don’t reach for e

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Author Elizabeth Gilbert on time management:

“If you’ve reached a certain age then you know what works for you. You should know by this point in your life what time of day you’re ‘good' — like what time of day is your brain at its best. Because the reality is we all get, maybe, two good hours a day where we actually feel awake and alert.

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On life:“All right, what are the things that are most important in  life?” They’re health, loving family and friends, and something you’re excited about. What did you do to help someone  today? We basically go through each of these things, and it’s like, all right, so health. What did you do to like, make  yourself stronger, more fit... See more

One of the things I’ve found just for kind of managingmyself is that if I try to just go straight into the day, almost every morning when I wake up and read through my emails  and get the news, it’s almost like getting punched with sort of like a ton of new context. And it’s like, “Okay, I need to  internalize this.”  So I found that... See more