The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time. - Cal Newport

The satisfactions of manifesting oneself concretely in the world through manual competence have been known to make a man quiet and easy,” explains Matthew Crawford.

the skillful management of attention is the sine qua non of the good life and the key to improving virtually every aspect of your experience.

Thoreau demonstrated similar concern, famously writing in Walden that “we are in great haste to construct a magnetic telegraph from Maine to Texas; but Maine and Texas, it may be, have nothing important to communicate.