If the answer isn’t a definite yes then it should be a no. It
Editing aids the effortless execution of the Essentialist by removing anything distracting or unnecessary or awkward.
Almost everything is noise, and a very few things are exceptionally valuable.
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A sense of ownership is a powerful thing. As the saying goes, nobody in the history of the world has washed their rental car! This is because of something called the endowment effect, our tendency to...
A non-Essentialist approaches every trade-off by asking, How can I do both? Essentialists ask the tougher but ultimately more liberating question, Which problem do I want? An Essentialist makes trade-...
20 per cent of our efforts produce 80 per cent of results.
I can do anything but not everything.
El camino del esencialista es la búsqueda incansable de ese menos pero mejor.
Charles Duhigg, author of the book The Power of Habit.
But undergirding their highly selective screening process is more than a gut reaction (although that matters too). What may seem like a capricious decision is really the result of a disciplined and co...
Kairos is qualitative.
IT’S ALL GOOD (WHICH IS BAD)
And the cost of hiring too many wrong people (and one wrong hire often leads to multiple wrong hires because the wrong person will tend to attract more wrong people) is what Guy Kawasaki called a Bozo...