You don’t have to stay on top of everything
Just let it go
“If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid in extraneous matters — don’t wish to seem knowledgeable. And if some regard you as important, distrust yourself.” — EPICTETUS, ENCHIRIDION, 13a
One of the lessons I try to learn those days is to let go and share my work even if it’s not “perfect.
In our hyperconnected world we find ourself pushed to be perfectionist and questioning all what we do but guess what we should stop and admit that “I don’t know that” or more provocatively : “I don’t care”.
My question is: Why we want to know everything or to show that we are? Is it that we are just afraid of seeming silly at a dinner party?
Yes you need to know what happening around you but that’s all, you don’t want to know every details and read every news on the media.
How much more time, energy, and pure brainpower would you have available if you drastically cut your media consumption?
Maybe it’s time to try life without media (or not that much), it’s time to no longer being excited and outraged by breaking story, scandal, and potential crisis and give ourselves rest to focus on other important things.
Just let it go…
Reference:
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman
