Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkemanby Parker on TwosWorking too hastily means you’ll make more errors, which you’ll then be obliged to go back to correctAs the world gets faster and faster, we come to believe that our happiness, or our financial survival, depends on our being able to work and move and make things happen at superhuman speed. We grow anxious about not keeping up—so to quell the anxiety, to try to achieve the feeling that our lives are under control, we move fasterSpeed addiction tends to be socially celebrated. Your friends are more likely to praise you for being “driven”Surrender to the reality that things just take the time they takeIt’s not an incremental improvement but a change in perspective that reframes everythingPatience is the least fashionably but perhaps most consequential superpowerIn a world headed for hurry, the capacity to resist the urge to hurry—to allow things to take the time they take—is a way to do the work that counts, and derive satisfaction from the doing itself, instead of deferring all your fulfillment to the futureIf you’re willing to endure the discomfort of not knowing, a solution will often present itselfPeople who do things with others are happierRelease your need for everything being perfect to be with people