"Several productivity experts say they’ve hit on a better approach, borrowed from wartime medicine. **‘Triage’, in its original form, was the battlefield surgeon’s practice of quickly dividing the wounded into three groups: the ones who’d die even if they got medical attention, the ones who’d survive even if they didn’t get any, and the ones for whom medical attention would make the difference between life and death**. With limited resources, it makes sense to focus on the third group. And, if you’ll pardon the tasteless transition from the horrors of war to the ‘horrors’ of modern living, it sometimes pays to approach your day-to-day existence in a broadly similar spirit." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[eisenhower-matrix]], [[triage]], [[getting-things-done]], [[project-management]], [[essentialism]], [[attention]] **Source** -- [[20241114100017 - B - Help!]]