Before you can evaluate what is and isn’t essential, you first need to explore your options. While Nonessentialists automatically react to the latest idea, jump on the latest opportunity or respond to the latest e-mail, Essentialists choose to create the space to explore and ponder.
Nonessentialist
- Is too busy doing to think about life
Essentialist
- Creates space to escape and explore life
- (Space to design, concentrate, read)
* Source: Essentialism by Greg McKeown