knowing what to leave out is just as important…

knowing what to leave out is just as important as knowing what to focus on

— from Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences) · Win your inner battle by Darius Foroux

In the book

Every moment you spend attending to one thing is an opportunity cost paid against everything else you might have attended to. The mind can hold only one dominant thought at a time, so the real skill is choosing, deliberately, what to put there — and, just as importantly, what to leave out. Learn the difference, too, between useful and useless thinking: most of our mental noise is narrative chatter, while the truly useful thoughts — the ones that solve a problem or stay with the task — are usually quiet. — Decisions & Choices (Decision/Choice/Focus/Forethought/Consequences)

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