Scott Moore’s Reviews > Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals > Status Update

“In order to most fully inhabit the only life you ever get, you have to refrain from using every spare hour for personal growth. From this perspective, idleness isn't merely forgivable; it's practically an obligation.”

“You see, I don’t mind what happens.”

“The most effective way to sap distraction of its power is just to stop expecting things to be otherwise–to accept that this unpleasantness is simply what it feels like for finite humans to … to confront our limited control over how our lives unfold.
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“And the paradoxical reward for accepting realities constraints is that they no longer feel so constraining.”

Eye-opening. Be ruthless to things that don’t matter.