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Originally Posted by Socks
The above quote comes from Peter Drucker, a management consultant who wrote on running businesses for the better part of the 20th century.
It's easy to get bogged down in doing things faster, better, and more efficiently. However, it's all for nothing if the thing we're trying to accomplish isn't going to provide any real benefit in the long run. Becoming awesome at a dead-end job, perfecting your toothpick sculpture on your lunch break, or even crafting the perfect comment on a blog might not be worth doing if there's no larger goal that doing those things will help you reach.
"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all." | Experience Life
http://lifehacker.com/nothing-is-les...-not-913219214
Think a lot of people around here could learn from that right about now... |
I've never read this guy but just from this excerpt he has a narrow view of life, there's more to life for many than some goal of success.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - 'Life is a journey, not a destination.'
Non-productive moments can be your most pleasurable and memorable. Crafting the perfect comment on a blog may bring somebody a lot more satisfaction than spending that time on some task that is part of completing some more important project that at the end of your life you may not even remember.