It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a lot done - very rarely include techniques for 'getting motivated' or 'feeling inspired'. Quite the opposite: they tend to emphasise the mechanics of the working process, focusing not on generating the right mood, but on accomplishing certain physical actions, regardless of mood.
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a lot done - … - Oliver Burkeman
It is illuminating to note, here, how the daily rituals and working routines of prolific authors and artists - people who really do get a lot done - …
- Oliver Burkeman
The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instea… - Oliver Burkeman
The real trick to producing great work isn't to find ways to eliminate the edgy, nervous feeling that you might be swimming out of your depth. Instea…
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting. - Oliver Burkeman
Uncertainty is where things happen. It is where the opportunities - for success, for happiness, for really living - are waiting.
Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't … - Oliver Burkeman
Who says you need to wait until you 'feel like' doing something in order to start doing it? The problem, from this perspective, isn't that you don't …
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To… - Oliver Burkeman
What made Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein such creative geniuses? It wasn't reading books or watching YouTube talks about How To…
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable. - Oliver Burkeman
The effort to try to feel happy is often precisely the thing that makes us miserable.
True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can. - Oliver Burkeman
True security lies in the unrestrained embrace of insecurity - in the recognition that we never really stand on solid ground, and never can.
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the futu… - Oliver Burkeman
Ceaseless optimism about the future only makes for a greater shock when things go wrong; by fighting to maintain only positive beliefs about the futu…
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittl… - Oliver Burkeman
Confronting the worst-case scenario saps it of much of its anxiety-inducing power. Happiness reached via positive thinking can be fleeting and brittl…
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