Pursue Less It takes work to simplify one’s life, and perhaps | Human Nature

Pursue Less

It takes work to simplify one’s life, and perhaps that’s why most people are engaged in the undisciplined pursuit of more rather than less. Saying no is uncomfortable, so by default they say yes to new obligations. They don’t pause and ponder on how they use up their energy because it takes too much work. There’s always something urgent to do, and hence they never take the time to deliberately eliminate what’s unessential in their lives so they can focus on what matters.It’s particularly important to remedy a situation in which your non-priorities dominate your priorities.

When you stop and really think about it, conventional life advice—all the positive and happy self-help stuff we hear all the time—is actually fixating on what you lack. It lasers in on what you perceive your personal shortcomings and failures to already be, and then emphasizes them for you. Our culture today is obsessively focused on unrealistically positive expectations: Be happier. Be healthier. Be the best, better than the rest. Be smarter, faster, richer, sexier, more popular, more productive, more envied, and more admired. Be perfect and amazing, the world is constantly telling you that the path to a better life is more, more, more—buy more, own more, make more, more more, be more.

If you want to retain control over your life, embrace the strategy of deliberately pursuing less. Instead of thinking how you can add more to your life, figure out what you can eliminate from it, in order to make more time for what matters most for you. The key to a good life is to care less about more; it’s wanting less, wanting what's really true and immediate and important and of course, not caring about people's judgement of how much you have or don't have. This does not mean being indifferent; it means being comfortable with being different.

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