Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things–eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies–since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.Seneca
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Aristotle said, “Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things.” He was making the point that you cannot live your life by focusing on one goal at a time. While you should try to accomplish as much as possible, you will fail if you spend all of your time trying to do everything at once.
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