The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

by Dorie Clark

We’re stuck in permanent “execution mode,” without a moment to take stock or ask questions about what we really want from life.

As the British scholar C. Northcote Parkinson noted, “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.”

“Impatience isn’t necessarily a bad thing if it motivates you to work. It’s only a bad thing if you tell yourself you’re failing.”