our brains work better when we’re not rushing. We’ve now refuted a common confusion about the first principle of slow productivity: it’s easy to mistake “do fewer things” as a request to “accomplish fewer things.” But this understanding gets things exactly backward. Whether your task list is overflowing or sparse, you’re still working more or less the same number of hours each week. The size of your list affects only how usefully these hours produce results. It’s here that we find the primary argument for why doing fewer things is as important for modern knowledge workers as it was for Jane
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