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Spending time on unnecessary work tasks keeps us busy, but such busyness is just an active form of laziness when it doesn’t lead to actually accomplishing anything.
“A person can feel pleasure without any effort, if the appropriate centers in his brain are electrically stimulated, or as a result of the chemical stimulation of drugs. But it is impossible to enjoy a tennis game, a book, or a conversation unless attention is fully concentrated on the activity.”
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
― Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure to have trouble. —RALPH WALDO EMERSON”
― The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
― The 4-Hour Work Week: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
“Pure hell forces action, but anything less can be endured with enough clever rationalization.”
― The 4-Hour Workweek
― The 4-Hour Workweek
“Our potential is one thing. What we do with it is quite another.”
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
― Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
― The 4-Hour Workweek
― The 4-Hour Workweek
Jonny’s 2025 Year in Books
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