“If I do this, most will commend me as an industrious and hard-working man; but if I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.” -Thoreau
That’s a good one, thanks for sharing!
I’m sure Jefferson understood the need for a clear head and didn’t consider his decompression time or taking the time to step back and study ideas differently to be idle time.
This flipside of the quote is that people can turn this into an excuse to do the trivial “work for work’s sake” as Tim Ferriss calls it, rather than the important.
I like that and this too:
“If I do this, most will commend me as an industrious and hard-working man; but if I choose to devote myself to certain labors which yield more real profit, though but little money, they may be inclined to look on me as an idler.” -Thoreau
http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/life.html
Thanks mate! I guess this is one of the biggest problems nowadays – “doing nothing because of i don’t know”
That’s a good one, thanks for sharing!
I’m sure Jefferson understood the need for a clear head and didn’t consider his decompression time or taking the time to step back and study ideas differently to be idle time.
This flipside of the quote is that people can turn this into an excuse to do the trivial “work for work’s sake” as Tim Ferriss calls it, rather than the important.