“Being busy is most often used as a guise for avoiding the few critically important but uncomfortable actions” (Timothy Ferris, The 4-Hour Workweek)
“A man under the age of forty does not need to be prudent or sagacious. It is better that he gathers strength” (Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure).
Imagine you are in a dark room full of stuff with just a pocket flashlight. This is what the limited attention span is about.
A small summary.
- Be smart — think vectors, not points, safe hours, not seconds.
- Learn to find energy. Do every day not only what you got to, but just a little more.
- Develop your vision. Energy without vision is a waste; energy plus vision is charisma.
- Stay on your own pathway — trust signs, not numbers. Believe — true success is the experience of the miraculous, not the fulfillment of our plans, however great and visionary.
The art of life is based on “second attention”, the skill of seeing through typical patterns of behavior.
Our own personal history is our biggest source of sense, inspiration and mystery. All we need is the skill of asking questions.
A little more. Do every day not only what you got to, but just a little more. It’s like a vector – it has no length, but has direction and power.
Marriage is like a bow where the power results from the balanced tension between self-realization in activity and self-realization in love.
First, the aim of nonviolence is ultimately to bring peace to yourself, to quell your own violence; the enemy outside serves only to mirror the enemy within. Second, your ability to be nonviolent depends on a shift in consciousness. Last, if you are successful in changing yourself, reality will mirror the change back to you. Deepak Chopra
“[Jesus's] doctrine of ‘the last shall be first’ was aimed at revealing a deeper truth, that spirit has been put last in the word and deserves to be first”. Deepak Chopra