“If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot.”-Ryan Holiday
Your email is pinging. The whole school forgot to not “reply all” on a district wide email celebrating a milestone for one of your colleagues.
A colleague is asking for some of your time. A parent left a message and wants a response as soon as possible.
You have a classroom of students, or a schedule of small groups to get to throughout the day. All of this is going on, all in the few hours you have today.
Do you go into hyperactive mode, or do you shrink away from responsibility?
Do you find a quiet moment and make the next best choice?
Holiday’s idea of our crowded, busy world rings true in these days of connectivity and to-do lists. You can hustle a little more. Squeeze a little more out of your time. You can get it all done. You can also exhaust yourself past physical and mental boundaries.
