Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series)

you want to create something worthwhile with your life, you need to draw a line between the world’s demands and your own ambitions

Things I Have Learned in My Life So Far

Moby both meditate regularly. At its best, meditation trains your mind to be attentive and focused, and it’s commonly assumed to reduce stress. Over time, meditation can lead to better use of the brain’s faculties, a greater sense of compassion, and increased sensitivity to the inherent connections between ideas.

In his book Catching the Big Fish, filmmaker David Lynch suggests that companies can solve productivity problems by advocating meditation:

Instead of instilling fear, if a company offered a way for everyone in the business to dive within—to start expanding energy and intelligence—people would work overtime for free.