I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

If I didn’t already own this, how much would I spend to buy it?

Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

Essentialism is not about how to get more things done, it's about how to the get the right things done. It doesn't mean just doing less for the sake of less either. It is about making the wisest possible investment of your time and energy in order to operate at our highest point of contribution by doing only what is essential.

I think we’ve been oversold the value of more and undersold the value of less.

The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular. It meant the very first or prior thing. It stayed singular for the next five hundred years. Only in the 1900s did we pluralize the term and start talking about priorities. Illogically, we reasoned that by changing the word we could bend reality. Somehow we would now be able to have multiple “first” things.

There should be no shame in admitting to a mistake; after all, we really are only admitting that we are now wiser than we once were.