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If most of the time you’re not particularly concerned about what you’re doing is work or play, or even whether you’re happy or not, you know you’re living the focused life.
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114 |
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How you decide to spend your time and make other choices that affect your quality of life is closely bound up with attention…
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119 |
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…our customary focus on things temporal and material is the major cause of human misery, because it distracts us from attending to timeless, formless true reality.
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209 |
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The antidote to procrastination is to reverse this process – to become skilled at spending time each day engaged in your most significant work.
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…as long as the work is meaningful, managers do not have to spend time coming up with ways to motivate people to do that work.
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When people’s motivation for a job has become purely extrinsic – when they are just putting in their time to make a buck or to get the benefits – they will do only what they must do, and no more.
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062 |
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…placing people under extreme stress, especially for long periods of time, is more likely to produce coal than diamonds.
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065 |
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For optimal creative performance, go for low or moderate time pressure as a general rule – punctuated by occasional periods of focused urgency.
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107 |
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On our path to achieving a goal we inevitably encounter obstacles. Some of the more familiar ones, aside from other people, are sacrifices of time, money, power, love, resources, and inner strength.
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018 |
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The nature of abstractions is that they have a lasting existence exempt from the contingencies of time and place.
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