Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series)

you want to create something worthwhile with your life, you need to draw a line between the world’s demands and your own ambitions

My mantra has always been, “It’s not about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.”

constant surge of information, attention

You’re much more likely to spot surprising relationships and to see fresh connections among ideas, if your mind is constantly humming with issues related to your work.

a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.”

s possible to push ourselves past ninety minutes by relying on coffee, or sugar, or by summoning our own stress hormones, but when we do so we’re overriding our physiological need for intermittent rest and renewal. Eventually, there’s a price to pay.

The first is that sleep is more important than food.

Instead, we live linear lives, progressively burning down our energy reservoirs throughout the day. It’s the equivalent of withdrawing funds from a bank account without ever making a deposit. At some point, you go bankrupt.

How do you keep your short-term work aligned with your long-term objectives?

but you are only going to become a professional if you do it when you don’t feel like it.