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Quality Work - Arianna Huffington - Do low mental activity when tired

We think, mistakenly, that success is the result of the amount of time we put into work, instead of the quality of time we put in. from: Arianna Huffington - Author , Co-Founder of Huffington Post , Founder and CEO of ThriveGlobal  which promotes well-being and performance through technology. Not just managing time, but when to do what most effectively has been getting a lot of notice lately.  Arianna Huffington promotes sleep and other wellness actions to be more productive and interesting: I [Arianna] once had dinner with a man who bragged to me that he'd gotten only four hours of sleep the night before. (I resisted the temptation to tell him that the dinner would have been a lot more interesting if he had gotten five.) Daniel Pink's newest promotion is about doing the right thing at the right time as described in his book WHEN:  The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing .  Recently, Maura Nevel Thomas  is frames this in terms of increasing one's atte...

Frustration - Issac Azimov - Making no Progress

Seldon shugged.  "Why does one usually feel frustration? I'm tackling something in which I am making no progress." from:    Issac Azimov,    Prelude to Foundation   I have been following Stephen King's admonition about writers should read.  However, I may be cheating?  I am listening to books on tape (has that become an anachronistic term?) while I exercise and do various and sundry distractions from achieving overall goals.  Previously I would listen to political podcasts, but the quality of speech and the repetition of ideas has become boring. Currently, I am listening to the first Foundation book, Prelude to Foundation explains the origins of Hari Seldon, the birther of Psychohistory which predicts overall future trends.  I haven't read Azimov's books in a long time and I have become struck in the similarity of the royal play that occurs in Game of Thrones and Dune.   I am struck that since I want to write stories, ...