In an age of attention scarcity, the greatest act of good citizenship may be learning to withdraw your attention from everything except the battles y… - Oliver Burkeman

Choose uncomfortable enlargement over comfortable diminishment whenever you can.

Once you stop struggling to get on top of everything, to stay in absolute control, or to make everything perfect, you're rewarded with the time, energy and psychological freedom to accomplish the most of which anyone could be capable.

My mom used to get really upset at what she perceived as my half-assing,' reads one splendid anonymous comment on a Washington Post article by the advice columnist Carolyn Hax. 'I'm 48 now, have a PhD and a thriving and influential career, and I still think there is very very little that's worthy of applying my whole entire ass. I'm not interested in burning myself [out] by whole-assing stuff that will be fine if I half- or quarter-ass it. Being able to achieve maximum economy of ass is an important adult skill.