Book Titles

CrazyBusy
Overstretched, Overbooked, and About to Snap! Strategies for Coping in a World Gone ADD

By Edward Hallowell

Year Published: 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0345482433
Categories: Busyness, Overwhelming, Psychology

137 Quotes Found

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CrazyBusy:

Each time you introduce a new object of attention into what you are doing, you dilute your attention on any one object.

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CrazyBusy:

If none of what you are doing requires your full attention, it is fine to multitask. Just be aware that you make mistakes, miss key bits of information, be impolite, and fail to produce your best work.

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CrazyBusy:

If the task matters, it is better that you do it by itself. That way you can give it your full attention.

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CrazyBusy:

Being extraordinarily busy – and at times frantic – appears to be the inevitable, uncontrollable consequence of living in today’s world.

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CrazyBusy:

Embracing change, not fearing it, today’s enthusiasm sets minds free.

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CrazyBusy:

Those who cling to old ways get burned. Those who crave security and fear change lobby for a pension that, as it turns out, they can’t depend on.

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CrazyBusy:

If you want to take advantage of what today’s world has to offer you have to live by your wits and be willing to try something new, leaving your comfort zone for a while.

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CrazyBusy:

Today, victory belongs to those who don’t freeze up when cast aloft but instead figure out how to fly, or at least how to get back up after they fall.

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CrazyBusy:

…opportunity knocks. The old is out, and the new has yet to stabilize and define itself. Life is wide open.

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CrazyBusy:

…social disconnection exacts an unrecognized price, leading to most of the varieties of unhappiness we see today but blame on other causes.

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