To generate a handful of masterworks, Mozart composed more than 600 pieces before his death at thirty-five, Beethoven produced 650 in his lifetime, a… - Adam Grant

people often become attached to best practices. The risk is that once we’ve declared a routine the best, it becomes frozen in time.

The way you like to learn is what makes you comfortable, but it isn’t necessarily how you learn best.

Procrastination may be the enemy of productivity, but it can be a resource for creativity. Long before the modern obsession with efficiency precipitated by the Industrial Revolution and the Protestant work ethic, civilizations recognized the benefits of procrastination. In ancient Egypt, there were two different verbs for procrastination: one denoted laziness; the other meant waiting for the right time.