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21 " As Parker Palmer, an expert in the Clearness Committee process, has written, “Each of us has an inner teacher, a voice of truth, that offers the guidance and power we need to deal with our problems.” The intent of the exercise is to help people amplify this inner voice and gain clarity on how to move forward. "
― Greg McKeown , Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
22 " In recent years neuroscientists and psychologists have found that the “now” we experience lasts only 2.5 seconds. "
23 " Looking at that first step or action through the lens of 2.5 seconds is the change that makes every other change possible. It is the habit of habits. "
24 " Producing a great result is good. Producing a great result with ease is better. Producing a great result with ease again and again is best. "
25 " Why would we simply endure essential activities when we can enjoy them instead? "
26 " What if the biggest thing keeping us from doing what matters is the false assumption that it has to take tremendous effort? What if, instead, we considered the possibility that the reason something feels hard is that we haven’t yet found the easier way to do it? "
27 " Quando uma estratégia é tão complexa que cada passo é como empurrar uma pedra morro acima, faça uma pausa. Inverta o raciocínio. Pergunte: “Qual é o jeito mais simples de obter esse resultado? "
28 " essential work can be enjoyable once we put aside the Puritan notion that anything worth doing must entail backbreaking effort. "
29 " We are conditioned over the course of our lifetimes to believe that in order to overachieve we must also overdo. As a result, we make things harder for ourselves than they need to be. "
30 " Essentialism was about doing the right things; Effortless is about doing them in the right way. "
31 " Overachievers tend to struggle with the notion of starting with rubbish; they hold themselves to a high standard of perfection at every stage in the process. But the standard to which they hold themselves is neither realistic nor productive. "
32 " He teaches his language students to imagine they have a bag full of one thousand beads. Every time they make a mistake talking to someone else in the language they take out one bead. When the bag is empty they will have achieved level 1 mastery. The faster they make those mistakes, the faster they will progress. "
33 " Holding back when you still have steam in you might seem like a counterintuitive approach to getting important things done, but in fact, this kind of restraint is key to breakthrough productivity. "
34 " Whether it’s “miles per day” or “words per day” or “hours per day,” there are few better ways to achieve effortless pace than to set an upper bound. "
35 " When you focus on what you lack, you lose what you have. When you focus on what you have, you get what you lack. "
36 " One study found that by training our attentional muscles we can improve our processing of complex information moving at great speed. "
37 " Listening isn’t hard; it’s stopping our mind from wandering that’s hard. Being in the moment isn’t hard; not thinking about the past and future all the time is hard. It’s not the noticing itself that’s hard. It’s ignoring all the noise in our environment that is hard. "
38 " Arianna Huffington used to buy into the notion that anything worth doing required superhuman effort. But she has since said that she didn’t become truly successful until she stopped overworking herself. “It’s also our collective delusion that overwork and burnout are the price we must pay in order to succeed,” she says. "
39 " Essential Project: Complete the first draft of a book Lower Bound: Never less than five hundred words a day Upper Bound: Never more than one thousand words a day "
40 " Have you ever found that the more you complain—and the more you read and hear other people complain—the easier it is to find things to complain about? On the other hand, have you ever found that the more grateful you are, the more you have to be grateful for? "