Becoming a parent stripped my time down to almost nothing, and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to my focus. This episode is about what I learned from Greg McKeown's "Essentialism": that the constraint was not the problem, it was the teacher.
I get into the MoSCoW method for deciding what actually matters, why waiting for inspiration is the amateur's move and what the professional does instead, and how limits tend to fuel creativity rather than kill it. Underneath it all is one Stoic habit: making conscious trade-offs in a world that pretends you can have everything.
Resources mentioned:
"Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less" by Greg McKeown: on Amazon
"The War of Art" by Steven Pressfield: on Amazon
"Maxims" by Francois La Rochefoucauld: on Amazon
Greg McKeown's videos on Essentialism: on YouTube
The Big Five Personality Test: truity.com
Free 7-Day Stoic Challenge: stoicchallenge.co
The Stoic Vault: stoicvault.com
