A good editor is someone who uses deliberate subtraction to actually add life to the ideas, setting, plot, and characters.
Likewise, in life, disciplined editing can help add to your level of contribution. It increases your ability to focus on and give energy to the things that really matter. It lends the most meaningful relationships and activities more space to blossom.
Nonessentialist
- Thinks that making things better means adding something
- Attached to every word, image, or detail
Essentialist
- Thinks that making things better means subtracting something
- Eliminates the distracting words, images, and details
Editing our time and activities continuously allows us to make more minor but deliberate adjustments along the way. Becoming an Essentialist means making cutting, condensing, and correcting a natural part of our daily routine–making editing a natural cadence in our lives.
* Source: Essentialism by Greg McKeown