To build your working life around the experience of flow produced by deep work is a proven path to deep satisfaction.

A particularly effective means to help Prioritize and Execute under pressure is to stay at least a step or two ahead of real-time problems. Through careful contingency planning, a leader can anticipate likely challenges that could arise during execution and map out an effective response to those challenges before they happen.

The reverse phenomenon, of European deaths due to diseases encountered overseas, is discussed by Philip Curtin, Death by Migration: Europe’s Encounter with the Tropical World in the 19th Century.

There is usually an inverse relationship between how much something is on your mind and how much it’s getting done.

Rule of thumb: If it feels like they’re doing you a favour by talking to you, it’s probably too formal.

The Christian is a light unto the world, not because of any quality of his own, but only because he follows Christ and looks solely to him.

To produce at your peak level you need to work for extended periods with full concentration on a single task free from distraction

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The obsessive planner, essentially, is demanding certain reassurances from the future – but the future isn’t the sort of thing that can ever provide the reassurance he craves, for the obvious reason that it’s still in the future.

Jesus does not throw his hands up in the air when he engages sinners. He is calm, tender, soothing, restrained.