I’m continuing to reflect on the Essentialist and how we all need to build time for ourselves just to concentrate/focus. I like what McKeown wrote on page 68. Simply put the amount of stimuli and distractions stemming from electronic devices and commitments has banished boredom from our modern world.

“But by abolishing any chance of being bored we have also lost the time we used to have to think and process. Here’s another paradox for you: the faster and busier things get, the more we need to build thinking into our schedule. And the noisier things get, the more we need to build quiet reflection places in which we can truly focus.”

I have reason to believe that finding quiet time is also something that successful leaders do.

In his recent book Tools of Titans author Tim Ferriss cites on page xx that, “More than 80% of the interviewees have some form of daily mindfulness or meditation practice.” On page 213 Tony Robbins, says that, “And, as I’ve always said, there’s no excuse not to do 10 minutes. If you don’t have 10 minutes, you don’t have a life.”

Ferriss goes on to say, “This reminded me of something I’ve heard from many adept meditators (such as Russell Simmons) in various forms: “If you don’t have 20 minutes to delve into yourself through meditation, then that means you really need 2 hours.”