From one piece Lessons In 'Essentialism': Getting More Out Of Life By Doing Less (NPR Weekend Edition, interview) 7 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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One other thing that I suggest that people do is, first thing in the morning, instead of reaching for your phone, you take 20 minutes and write a journal - ask the hard questions, maybe read wisdom literature, maybe meditate.
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For at least the last ten years the problem has been opinion overload rather than information overloadTheir words
But for at least the last 10 years, it's not been information overload that's the problem - it's opinion overload.
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Being tricked by the trivial is a human dynamic of social pressure, not a time-management problemTheir words
It's not about time management. It's much more complex than that. It's a human dynamic. This is about social pressure.
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And so they've given up the right to negotiate nonessentials. And as soon as you give up that right, then you lose a lot of power.
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I think we have to come back to the reality of trade-offs.
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What I think is that society at large is in a busyness bubble now, and we're almost at a tipping point. And at some point, it will burst as well and we'll think we were just crazy to get caught up in all of this euphoria.
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I think that in the bigger picture, essentialism is about fighting this nonsense that we have been sold - that if we can fit it all in, then we can have it all.