Jennifer

“Give yourself enough time to produce something great, but not unlimited time. Focus on creating something good enough to catch the attention of those whose taste you care about, but relieve yourself of the need to forge a masterpiece. Progress is what matters. Not perfection.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

“So much of coming to terms with hard things from the past seems to be about believing our own accounts, having our memories confirmed by those who were there and honoured by those who weren’t. Why is it so hard for us to believe our own stories or begin to process them without corroborating witnesses appearing from the shadows of the past, or without people stepping forward with open arms when echoes of those stories present themselves again in the present?”
― Sarah Polley, Run Towards the Danger: Confrontations with a Body of Memory

“In most cases, people don’t measure the productivity of knowledge workers and when we do, we do it in really silly ways, like how many papers do academics produce, regardless of quality.”
― Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout