Dan Ariely points out that when we do this, we leave no time for deep creative thinking. “You open your calendar and you see a blank space45 and that seems like it’s the wrong thing,” he says. “The reality is, blank spaces are the spaces where you’re supposed to do the most meaningful work.” It’s all those other things filling up the calendar that should be seen as expendable. So the challenge is: How can we resist the urge to fill in the blank spaces?
Being busy is not the same as being productive. Sometimes we are just busy and not doing any meaningful work. So it is important that we are doing meaningful work instead of just being busy doing something that doesn’t help us or others in any meaningful way.
