Françoise Sagan on the power of laziness
The more my career takes me in the direction of creative projects that require alone time, the more I realize being productive has very little to do with high-stakes meetings, rushing from point A to point B, or can’t catch a breath to-do lists that I will probably half-ass due to exhaustion.
Real power comes from slowing down. Focus is sacred.
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Real power comes from slowing down. Focus is sacred.
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sari azout • Things I'm Thinking About
Slow productivity, more than anything else, is a plea to step back from the frenzied activity of the daily grind. It’s not that these efforts are arbitrary: our anxious days include tasks and appointments that really do need to get done. But once you realize, as McPhee did, that this exhausted scrambling is often orthogonal to the activities that m
... See moreCal Newport • Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout
wonder why there always seem to be a few who get a lot of good writing done and still have time for a coffee every time we ask them.
Sönke Ahrens • How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
and the writer can go off and do something else. Maybe work on a different writing project, or paint and draw, or go out into the fields and gather wildflowers to press into a book. Or maybe just deal with life events that conveniently come up at the same time and need to be addressed. The rest break given to the writer is a blessing, not a problem
... See moreLauren Sapala • Writing on the Intuitive Side of the Brain
I might not be able to spend two full weeks lying on a picnic table in my backyard, but there’s a key insight lurking in that story about the value of slowing down to prepare to tackle a hard project. If we can get over our frustration that these traditional knowledge workers enjoyed privileges that we don’t have access to, we might find in their e
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