do less to do more

What makes us feel liberated is not total freedom, but rather living in a set of limitations that we have created and prescribed for ourselves.

This is choice paralysis. Previous generations didn’t have many options so they stuck together through hard times and made it work. Now, abundance (or its illusion) has led people to feel less satisfied. People are now more anxious about making a choice and less certain that the one they made was correct.

still one of my favorite lines of all time: and when nobody wakes you up in the morning, and when nobody waits for you at night, and when you can do whatever you want. what do you call it, freedom or loneliness? - charles bukowski

Writer David Foster Wallace said that he thought good nonfiction was a chance to “watch somebody reasonably bright but also reasonably average pay far closer attention and think at far more length about all sorts of different stuff than most of us have a chance to in our daily lives.” Amateurs fit the same bill: They’re just regular people who get

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The first mistake creative and entrepreneurial people make is being too optimistic about the ability of their audience to retain the information they are given.

Anytime you are pitching or presenting work, you are competing with every other idea, piece of information and decision that is trying to occupy your audience's mind. They are constantly eva

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For me, the ability to concentrate, you know, to get fascinated with something and really dig into it, which as I got older I could choose what I concentrated on. And when I was in high school, I was okay at it, but I remember being down in my room thinking, "Okay, I'm going to work on my homework and do really well this year." But then t

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