People wear their busyness as a badge of honour. ‘The words “I’m terribly busy at work” act as a means of status enhancement, signalling importance and indispensability.
Source: Helen Pearson – Where Does It All Go? | Literary Review | Issue 478
Quotes
On building teams
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Source: Antoine de Saint-Exupery – If you want to build a ship…
Life Lessons For Mental Clarity
7 Old School Life Lessons For Mental Clarity:
1. Never beg people to stay.
2. Make time for people who matter.
3. Keep your circle small.
4. Accept what you can’t change.
5. Let go of what’s not good for you.
6. No matter what happens, stay positive.
7. Make time for yourself.
7 Old School Life Lessons For Mental Clarity:
1. Never beg people to stay.
2. Make time for people who matter.
3. Keep your circle small.
4. Accept what you can’t change.
5. Let go of what’s not good for you.
6. No matter what happens, stay positive.
7. Make time for yourself.— Ralph Napolitano (@DrRalphNap) August 8, 2019
On simple solutions to the big problems
Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear you out, it’s the little pebble in your shoe.
― Muhammad Ali
Source: Quote by Muhammad Ali: “Often it isn’t the mountains ahead that wear yo…”
On redistribution of income and wealth
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
– Stephen Hawking