"The **second principle is to limit your work in progress**. "**Perhaps the most appealing way to resist the truth about your finite time is to initiate a large number of projects at once; that way, you get to feel as though you’re keeping plenty of irons in the fire** and making progress on all fronts. Instead, what usually ends up happening is that you make progress on no fronts—because each time a project starts to feel difficult, or frightening, or boring, you can bounce off to a different one instead. "**You get to preserve your sense of being in control of things, but at the cost of never finishing anything important**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[priorities]], [[focus]], [[specialisation]], [[self-control]], [[attention]], [[discipline]], [[personal-values]], [[infinite-scroll]] **Source** -- [[202410130434 - B - Four Thousand Weeks]]