Our current use of time is not rational. There is therefore no point in seeking marginal improvements in how we spend our time. We need to go back to the drawing board and overturn all our assumptions about time.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Hard work leads to low returns. Insight and doing what we want lead to high returns.

Instead of expending time to train yourself not to be afraid of snakes, avoid them altogether.

What could you achieve that would make you proud, that no one else could do with the same ease?

Use all the willpower at your disposal to make yourself happy. Construct the right stories about yourself - and believe them!

The key is to work out the few things that are really important, and the few methods that will give us what we really want.