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A Nonessentialist approaches every trade-off by asking, "How can I do both?" Essentialists ask the tougher but ultimately more liberating question, "Which problem do I want?" An Essentialist makes trade-offs deliberately."
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STRATEGY IS ABOUT MAKING CHOICES, TRADE-OFFS. IT'S ABOUT DELIBERATELY CHOOSING TO BE DIFFERENT. --Michael Porter
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Bill Gates, who regularly (and famously) takes a regular week off from his daily duties at Microsoft simply to think and read.
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Think about it this way. Options (things) can be taken away, while our core ability to choose (free will) cannot be.
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Making our criteria both selective and explicit affords us a systematic tool for discerning what is essential and filtering out the things that are not.
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German words: Weniger aber besser. The English translation is: Less but better.
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El camino del esencialista es la busqueda incansable de ese menos pero mejor.
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Hay muchas mas actividades y oportunidades en el mundo que el tiempo y los recursos con que contamos para invertir en ellas.
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el exito nos puede distraer de enfocarnos en las cosas esenciales que producen exito en primer lugar.
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We often think of choice as a thing. But a choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice--a choice is an action
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for a type A personality, it is not hard to push oneself hard. Pushing oneself to the limit is easy! The real challenge for the person who thrives on challenges is not to work hard. He explains to any overachievers: "If you think you are so tough you can do anything I have a challenge for you. If you really want to do something hard: say no to an opportunity so you can take a nap."
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the faintest pencil is better than the strongest memory.
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I can do anything but not everything.
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This experience brought me to the liberating realization that while we may not always have control over our options, we always have control over how we choose among them.
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THE WISDOM OF LIFE CONSISTS IN THE ELIMINATION OF NON-ESSENTIALS. --Lin Yutang
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Almost everything is noise, and a very few things are exceptionally valuable.
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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."
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The way of the Essentialist is to tune into the present. To experience life in kairos, not just chronos. To focus on the things that are truly important--not yesterday or tomorrow, but right now.
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Sunk-cost bias is the tendency to continue to invest time, money, or energy into something we know is a losing proposition simply because we have already incurred, or sunk, a cost that cannot be recouped.
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the endowment effect," our tendency to undervalue things that aren't ours and to overvalue things because we already own them."
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Nothing fires up the brain like play.
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So we introduced a token system.9 The children were given ten tokens at the beginning of the week. These could each be traded in for either thirty minutes of screen time or fifty cents at the end of the week, adding up to $5 or five hours of screen time a week. If a child read a book for thirty minutes, he or she would earn an additional token, which could also be traded in for screen time or for money. The results were incredible: overnigh..
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I took a single sheet of paper from someone's desk and sat in the lobby and attempted to answer the question: "If you could do only one thing with your life right now, what would you do?"
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DEBATE UNTIL YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED A REALLY CLEAR (NOT PRETTY CLEAR) ESSENTIAL INTENT Without clarity of purpose, Nonessentialist leaders straddle their strategy: they try to pursue too many objectives and do too many things. As a result their teams get spread in a million directions and make little progress on any. They
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es un editor?", hay "dos preguntas basicas que el editor deberia plantearle al autor: ?Estas diciendo lo que quieres decir?, y ?lo estas diciendo de la manera mas clara y concisa posible?"[7]"
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Winning is a natural extension.
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We must simply expend a small amount of initial energy to create the routine, and then all that is left to do is follow it.
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Instead of spending our limited supply of discipline on making the same decisions again and again, embedding our decisions into our routine allows us to channel that discipline toward some other essential activity.
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Recuerdo a un amigo que nunca se detenia a preguntar como llegar porque no era capaz de admitir que estaba perdido. Desperdiciaba
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As Peter Drucker said, "In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time - literally - substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselve..
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Una idea muy popular en Silicon Valley es "Algo terminado es mejor que algo perfecto"."
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El Esencialismo consiste en crear un sistema para manejar el closet de nuestra vida. No
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Esto apoya el sentimiento atribuido a Lao Tse: "En el trabajo, haz aquello que disfrutes. En la vida familiar, esta completamente presente"."
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As Peter Drucker said, "In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technology, not the Internet, not e-commerce. It is an unprecedented change in the human condition. For the first time--literally--substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves...
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true Essentialist, Peter Drucker believed that "people are effective because they say no."
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What if schools eliminated busywork and replaced it with important projects that made a difference to the whole community? What if all students had time to think about their highest contribution to their future so that when they left high school they were not just starting on the race to nowhere?10
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Obviamente, a nadie le gusta sentirse aburrido. Pero, al abolir cualquier oportunidad de sentirnos aburridos, tambien hemos perdido el tiempo que soliamos tener para pensar y procesar.
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while we may not always have control over our options, we always have control over how we choose among them.
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Ya sea que puedas invertir dos horas diarias, dos semanas al ano o tan solo cinco minutos todas las mananas, es importante hacer espacio para escapar de tu vida ajetreada.
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LifeEdited.com
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O'Brien explica: "Creo que es vital disponer tiempo para tomar un respiro, mirar alrededor y pensar. Necesitas ese nivel de claridad para innovar y crecer." Ademas,"
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Is there a point at which doing less (but thinking more) will actually produce better outcomes?
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certain ideas - and people peddling those ideas - constantly pull us toward the logic of non-Essentialism.
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choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do. This experience brought me to the liberating realisation that while we may not always have control over our options, we always have control over how we choose among them.
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