The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself. - Chris Bailey

Time pressure narrows our focus on the task, restricting us from considering a number of more creative ways to complete it. We don’t question our approach as much, because we haven’t stepped back to consider the alternatives. This makes it easier to switch.

every lesson I learned fell into better management of one of three categories: my time, my attention, and my energy.

any sufficiently complex decision or idea is also indistinguishable from magic.