I n "The War of Art," Steven Pressfield offers the "Principle of Priority" through the lens of which he encourages us to keep our eyes on what really needs our attention. The principle reads "a) you must know the difference between what is urgent and what is important, and b) you must do what's important first." At first, this sounds either counterintuitive or too simple. Counterintuitive in the sense that most of us spend much of our lives reacting to the urgent needs of our surroundings. Too simple in that the principle seems to ignore, or at least reduce the importance of the urgent things that assail us almost minute by minute. The phone rings and we immediately answer it despite the violence that does to the conversation we may be having with someone else. We forget that it is important to honor our correspondents than to respond immediately to a ringing interruption? Most parents have experienced the knee-jerk impulse to control a child in publ...
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