Create Space
Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop to look around once in a while you could miss it. - From the movie, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off
We all approach life in different ways. Some ways allow more time to think, to be creative, to do what’s important, and to spend time with friends.
You can notice that the busiest people on his team were always the people to whom he could give more work, while the ones who accomplished less had little time for anything (often including their existing responsibilities).
The trick is people who are most productive tend to say no to things that are unimportant to them and focus on what they believe matters. When you think about it, how could it be any other way?
In other words, just because someone else wants you to do something doesn’t mean you have to do it. You can’t get more time, so how you spend the time you have is critical. Focusing on what matters means saying no to things that don’t matter. Otherwise, your life becomes cluttered with distractions.
Technology presents both potential distractions and also great opportunities to use your time better. Technology is a tool. Used properly, it can help you but, like any other tool, it can be mismanaged. If, for example, you spend most of your day responding to email, or text messages, or checking out your friends on social networks, you won’t get much done.
Making space in your life by using time efficiently also helps nurture creativity. people who tend to be the most creative have three things in common:
They’re incredibly well prepared in their fields -- they become masters of their domains by practising for many years, day after day.
They spend time deeply focused on solving a key problem or key set of problems, no matter the obstacles.
They allow themselves to step away from the problem(s) on which they’re focused, so those insights can come to them in activities such as walking or looking out on a beautiful scene.
To get great insights absolutely requires hard work, but it also requires space. This is the case because the human mind is not a linear machine. If you don’t put in the required effort, you won’t be capable of generating good ideas; you won’t understand the subject matter. But if you don’t give yourself space from the problems on which you are working, you likely will be so worn down you won’t generate creative insights. You need both.
So to make the most of your life, say no to things that don’t matter, work hard at what you love, and occasionally take time away from your core focus to rest so that your mind can be quiet for great insights to come.
Thanks for reading, As Always,
ANKURJIT KALITA
We all approach life in different ways. Some ways allow more time to think, to be creative, to do what’s important, and to spend time with friends.
You can notice that the busiest people on his team were always the people to whom he could give more work, while the ones who accomplished less had little time for anything (often including their existing responsibilities).
The trick is people who are most productive tend to say no to things that are unimportant to them and focus on what they believe matters. When you think about it, how could it be any other way?
In other words, just because someone else wants you to do something doesn’t mean you have to do it. You can’t get more time, so how you spend the time you have is critical. Focusing on what matters means saying no to things that don’t matter. Otherwise, your life becomes cluttered with distractions.
Technology presents both potential distractions and also great opportunities to use your time better. Technology is a tool. Used properly, it can help you but, like any other tool, it can be mismanaged. If, for example, you spend most of your day responding to email, or text messages, or checking out your friends on social networks, you won’t get much done.
They’re incredibly well prepared in their fields -- they become masters of their domains by practising for many years, day after day.
They spend time deeply focused on solving a key problem or key set of problems, no matter the obstacles.
They allow themselves to step away from the problem(s) on which they’re focused, so those insights can come to them in activities such as walking or looking out on a beautiful scene.
To get great insights absolutely requires hard work, but it also requires space. This is the case because the human mind is not a linear machine. If you don’t put in the required effort, you won’t be capable of generating good ideas; you won’t understand the subject matter. But if you don’t give yourself space from the problems on which you are working, you likely will be so worn down you won’t generate creative insights. You need both.
So to make the most of your life, say no to things that don’t matter, work hard at what you love, and occasionally take time away from your core focus to rest so that your mind can be quiet for great insights to come.
Thanks for reading, As Always,
ANKURJIT KALITA
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