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It is *normal* to feel uncomfortable and even guilty about making other people do stuff you *could* do. But it’s the only way you can outgrow the limitations of your current time constraints.
It’s OK to only do stuff you want to do! It’s OK to take a vacation day while your employees work for you.
Why? Because: House cleaners want a job. Lawn services want a job. The kid down the street wants to shovel or rake for some extra money. Your PA wants a job. Give them the stuff you don’t want.
80/20 Sales and Marketing
Perry Marshall
Most problems are not about the real present moment.
They’re anxiety, worried that something bad might happen in the future.
They’re trauma, remembering something bad in the past.
But none of them are real.
If you stop and look around the room, and ask yourself if you have any actual problems right now, the answer is probably no.
Unless you’re in physical pain or danger, the problems were all in your head.
Memories and imagined futures are not real.
The present moment is real and safe.
Without the rigorous structure that math provides, common sense can lead you astray. That’s what happened to the officers who wanted to armor the parts of the planes that were already strong enough. But formal mathematics without common sense—without the constant interplay between abstract reasoning and our intuitions about quantity, time, space, motion, behavior, and uncertainty—would just be a sterile exercise in rule-following and bookkeeping. In other words, math would actually be what the peevish calculus student believes it to be.
How Not to Be Wrong : The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Ellenberg, Jordan
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