Sublime

you’re suboptimal.

At the heart of this book is a simple principle: human beings are not designed to run like computers—at high speeds, continuously, for long periods of time.

Tony Schwartz, um consultor que treina líderes sobre como administrar melhor a energia,

Whether you’re a computer programmer, writer, marketer, consultant, or entrepreneur, your situation has become similar to Jung trying to outwit Freud, or Jason Benn trying to hold his own in a hot start-up: To succeed you have to produce the absolute best stuff you’re capable of producing—a task that requires depth.

1. Think about people in your life you view as mentors, or role models, or whom you simply most admire. Which specific qualities of theirs come to mind? 2. Imagine one of your children—or a person to whom you are especially close—describing you to others. What are the qualities you’d hope he or she would cite?

The central goal of Slow Productivity is to keep an individual worker’s volume at a sustainable level.

The alternative is taking responsibility.