Four Thousand Weeks
by Oliver Burkeman
From The Book
The real measure of any time management technique is whether or not it helps you neglect the right things.
If you try to find time for your most valued activities by first dealing with all the other important demands on your time, in the hope that there’ll be some left over at the end, you’ll be disappointed.
We’re all in the position of medieval stonemasons, adding a few more bricks to a cathedral whose completion we know we’ll never see. The cathedral’s still worth building, all the same.