Realm of wisdom's Key Ideas from Meditations for Mortals
by Oliver Burkeman

You’re pretty much free to do whatever you like. You need only face the consequences.

To make a decision – any decision – is to take ownership of the situation instead.

The only two questions, at any moment of choice in life, is what the price is, and whether or not it’s worth paying.

Completion of any task replenishes energy, rather than using it up.

The main difference between those who accomplish great things anyway and those who don’t is that the former don’t mind not knowing.

The truth is that no work you bring into concrete existence could ever meet the perfect standards in your mind.

Beyond the mountains, there are always more mountains, at least until you reach the final mountain before your time on earth comes to an end.

In the meantime, few things are more exhilarating than mountaineering.

Often the real challenge, in building an accomplished and absorbing life, is learning to let go.

In an age of attention scarcity, the greatest act of good citizenship may be learning to withdraw your attention from everything except the battles you’ve chosen to fight.

When you start to view each day not as a matter of paying off a debt, but as an opportunity to move a small-but-meaningful number of items over your done list, you’ll find yourself making better choices about what to focus on.

It’s often more helpful to ask: What if this task might be a lot easier than I’d been assuming?

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