“Know how to leave things alone, for if knowing how to refuse is one of life’s great lessons, an even greater one is knowing how to say no to yourself, to important people, and in business. There are non-essential activities, moths of precious time, and it’s worse to take an interest in irrelevant things than to do nothing at all.”
BALTASAR GRACIAN
4
8 reads
The idea is part of this collection:
Learn more about motivationandinspiration with this collection
How to practice self-compassion
How to identify and challenge negative self-talk
How to build self-confidence
Related collections
Similar ideas
The best inventions are never finished. Great inventors don’t just stand there, rub their hands together, and say ‘My work is done here’. They keep working furiously to create something even better. It’s part love, part necessity. Because if they don’t reinvent their ideas time and again, som...
ERIC SCHMIDT
Selective Ignorance
To be selectively ignorant, learn to ignore or redirect all information and interruptions that are irrelevant, unimportant, or unactionable.
The Low-Information Diet:
- Go on an immediate one-week media fast.
- Only consume information for something i...
4 Life-Changing Ideas About Money
Ramit Sethi lists his favourite approaches to money:
- Behavior trumps information. Knowing the perfect right answer is less important than taking action. Focus on small, innocuous behaviors. Like saving small every month.
- Focus on getting things 85% righ...
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates