the good life

3. Your clutter is just unmade decisions.

Look around your home. That pile of papers? An unmade decision. The box of old cables? An unmade decision. The clothes that don’t fit? Unmade decisions.

Clutter is not just stuff. It is the physical weight of procrastination and indecision. It is the visual noise of “I’ll deal with this later.” Simplifying... See more

Co-authors Rosamund and Benjamin Zander, on finding the right frame:

“Every problem, every dilemma, every dead end we find ourselves facing in life, only appears unsolvable inside a particular frame or point of view. Enlarge the box, or create another frame around the data, and problems vanish, while new opportunities appear.”

and as Steve Jobs has said, focus is about ignoring a thousand good ideas.

As Charlie Munger says:

“It is remarkable how much long-term advantage people like us have gotten by trying to be consistently not stupid, instead of trying to be very intelligent.”