How To Make Better Trade-Offs When Time Is Tight

The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks · Sep 4, 2023 · 10m · transcript

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…