"Joining a Facebook group about creative productivity is like buying a chair about jogging."
"Before you sweat the logistics of focus: first, care. Care intensely.... Obsessing over the slipperiness of focus, bemoaning the volume of those devil "distractions," and constantly reassessing which shiny new "system" might make your life suddenly seem more sensible - these are all terrifically useful warning flares that you may be suffering from a deeper, more fundamental problem.... Know in your heart that what you're making or doing matters... First, care. Then, as you'll happily and unavoidably discover, all that "focus" business has a peculiar way of taking care of itself."
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Source: Inbox Zero theme statement at Kung Fu Grippe personal blog, www.kungfugrippe.com. 2012.
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