Stillness Is the Key
The scarce resource is not information but the stillness to think, and it is harder than it sounds.
The third of Holiday’s virtue books argues that the scarce resource is not information or energy but stillness: the capacity to be undistracted long enough to think. He draws on Stoic, Buddhist and Confucian sources, and is candid that the discipline is harder than the idea.
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