Donnerstag, 11. September 2025

Essentialism:

Greg McKeown:

"To discern what is truly essential we need space to think, time to look and listen, permission to play, wisdom to sleep, and the discipline to apply highly selective criteria to the choices we make.

Ironically, in a non-Essentialist culture these things - space, listening, playing, sleeping, and selecting - can be seen as trivial distractions. ...

We all know that highly ambitious or productive person who thinks, 'Of course, I'd love to be able to set aside time on the calendar simply to think, but it's a luxury we can't afford right now.' ...

If you believe being overly busy and overextended is evidence of productivity, then you probably believe that creating space to explore, think, and reflect should be kept to a minimum. Yet these very activities are the antidote to the non-essential busyness that infects so many of us. ...

Essentialists  spend as much time as possible exploring, listening, debating, questioning, and thinking. But their exploration is not an end in itself. The purpose of the exploration is to discern the vital few from the trivial many."

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