If nothing any of us does has any significance, provided you zoom out far enough, what’s the point of doing anything?

In his book Anti-Time Management, Richie Norton boils this philosophy down to two steps. One: ‘Decide who you want to be.’ Two: ‘Act from that identity immediately.’

at any instant, you can only pick one path, and must deal with the repercussions of not picking any of the others.

Steve Chandler writes. They don’t see ‘that leaving things unfinished is what’s causing the low levels of energy.’ (He suggests spending one day robotically completing as much unfinished business as you can: ‘Notice at the end of that day how much energy you’ve got. You’ll be amazed.’)

pick your battles,

If you don’t prioritize the skill of just doing something,

‘The driving cultural force of that form of life we call “modern” is the idea, the hope and desire, that we can make the world controllable,’

it risks implying that taking meaningful action is necessarily a tough or complex challenge.

Almost everything that happens, according to an adage of uncertain origin, is either a good time or a good story.