Less is more is a secret to productivity that few are actually embracing. I need to embrace the concept in my daily life. I appreciate you writing about it, which lends support to my growing view that slowing down is a good thing.

…thinking on these things lots lately, resisting leaning to addictive traits. Constantly coming back to that same rule…have to force myself to focus. Like what Will Reed said “on what people want”.

Wonder how many points my smarts go down by multi-tasking.

You’ve identified a huge disconnect. Maybe I ought to take a few good practices from the military and go back to Simpleology.

Thanks Mitch…may I be in the 10% that will learn to say no to distractions.

Nevertheless, gossip still gets attention, and pretty women still turn heads.

There is a story about two friends walking one summer on a noisy New York avenue. One of them was an expert on insect species, and kept picking out and identifying by name the sounds of various insects amidst the din of traffic and street noises. His friend asked how he could possibly pick out such small sounds from all the noise around them? He replied by taking a coin from his pocket and dropping it on the sidewalk, which turned nearly every head around them.

“People notice,” he said, “what they’re interested in.”

So we ourselves need to focus on the top ten percent, but it will work even better if that ten percent touches on what people want.

Will Reed from the Entrepreneurs Creative Edge.