The story you tell yourself creates your reality.

Part of the activation energy required to start any task comes from the picture you get in your head when you imagine doing it. It may not be that going for a run is actually costly; but if it feels costly, if the picture in your head looks like a slog, then you will need a bigger expenditure of will to lace up.

Slowness seems to make a special contribution to this picture in our heads. Time is especially valuable. So as we learn that a task is slow, an especial cost accrues to it. Whenever we think of doing the task again, we see how expensive it is, and bail.

That’s why speed matters.

And yes: that’s certainly how a lot of capitalist cultures think about time — as something that can be wasted or optimized. It’s often predicated on the idea that you should be focused on doing one thing, and one thing only, very efficiently: time is money, etc. etc. But that itself, sometimes referred to as a “monochronic” understanding of time, is no more or less “natural” than other ways of conceiving of time, like “polychronic” culture, which understands time as dynamic, flexible, and filled with several tasks at once, each of which will take the time that they need. Monochronic cultures may be more “efficient” in their use of time, but in their treatment of time as a commodity, they lose the richness that comes with allowing tasks, conversations, and interactions to move forward at a more natural and sustainable pace.

My quest for the rest of this year: get better at living a “polychronic” life.

It is simple:

Early is on time.  On time is late.  Late is unacceptable.

Via @Patrickrhone

Nicholas is as inspiring as usual:

Read. But the original. The long version. The fresh thinkers. Don't accept the hyperbole...Become your own expert.

I agree with @jack:

First, I don't need a Zettelkasten. If you're being honest, you probably don't either.

For most people, a simple notes app to store a curated selection of bits of information is more than enough. A full-blown Zettelkasten is overkill.

However, if you’re a thought leader and/or writer and need a systematic way to develop original thinking and store and retrieve those thoughts to combine them into new work, you may want to look at a Zetterkasten.

This quote merits to be converted into a nice poster in most offices:

If you do anything at the last minute that takes more than a minute, you’re not organizing your project properly.

The last minute is not a buffer zone, nor is it the moment to double-check your work.

The last minute is simply sixty seconds to enjoy and to remind yourself that you successfully planned ahead.

Learn to say these words more often:

No. Nope. No thanks. Not at this time. Nuh-uh. Nah. Sorry, but no.

Every person is unique. Instead of trying to follow the daily schedule of your hero’s, you should carve out your own path.

Their Daily Ritual, to whatever extent it was truly daily or truly a ritual, was likely an emergent phenomenon. They did not read tons of productivity books and then pick the routine that seemed best to them, as many of us feel compelled to do. They worked, and over time, their ideal routine for sustained output emerged. They started walking and reinforced the paths with concrete as they went. 

Does what you do during a day line up with what you said you are going to do?

When we give away our day, we give away our future.

Sí que tens temps, encara que és un recurs que està mal distribuït (igual que els diners).

(Re)plantejar la qüestió del temps és, en realitat, (re)plantejar els models de treball, de salut, d’educació, d’alimentació, de mobilitat, de consum, de reforma horària…