Get on a quick call?
Can you please do this report asap?
Can you please forget our family and food wherever they are and hop onto this particularly unnecessary phone call that we are having because we did not plan for this one deviation which could be solved tomorrow morning, but we have to appear busy, right?
My friend, the apple fell on Newton’s head because he made time to sit under a tree.
Steve Jobs had creative designs for Macintosh fonts because he was bold enough to take a lot of long walks, to connect his college class to the project of his lifetime.
Shah Rukh Khan is so articulate in his interviews, wonderful as an actor, and a great parent, because he does nothing at home.
Our obsession with “doing and being busy” is taking away from our art and creativity and everything excellent
Excellence breeds under focus, blocking out distractions, and working hard on things that matter. Instead of doing it just for the likes.
Our obsession with trying to look excellent is what it is robbing ourselves of: excellence.
