Lifestyle Minimalist Or Laziness?

[Oneness]

As far as I understood, he recommends managing your life so that you have a lot of free time.

But what about mastery, life purpose, deliberate practice? These things take HOURS of your day. He talkes about cutting working hours, but isn't your work supposed to be your play?

[ranzo1]

Just try to cut useless shit. Do things what is really matter to you. For me,we arent here to just sit and do nothing, find balance,cut all low quallity stuff and habbits. That is my opinion on that

[Infinite]

@Oneness Eliminating anything that does no pertain to self actualization should suffice.

[a e l i]

In my opinion there should be time to just sit and be, contemplating existence. Always being in a rush won't bring you peace, even though you may be excited about your work or your hobbies. Most people are addicted to activities, and for them just sitting and doing literally nothing for a couple of hours is really difficult. If you can't be peaceful doing that you are not happy. Saying that you'd be lazy for doing nothing is just an excuse. 

[kibrekidusan]

On 5/24/2016 at 1:44 PM, Oneness said:

As far as I understood, he recommends managing your life so that you have a lot of free time.

But what about mastery, life purpose, deliberate practice? These things take HOURS of your day. He talkes about cutting working hours, but isn't your work supposed to be your play?

You got it all wrong, his intention is to cut anything that doesn't support you not your life purpose plus, even your life purpose and mastery should not make you unaware of life. One, why it should and two it will backfire on the dream since you need presence and awareness to really make a result, not just mindless hard work. So I think it is win win.

[FindingPeace]

On 24/05/2016 at 11:44 AM, Oneness said:

He talkes about cutting working hours, but isn't your work supposed to be your play?

There's a difference between filling your time because you choose to verses filling your time because you feel you need to.

Becomming obsessed with life-purpose can become just as much monkey business as the lower conscious stuff that other people engage in. It all comes down to why you are doing it and what you are hoping to achieve. Ultimately, you should be able to be comfortable with having time to spare in your life. Time to contemplate and introspect. Time to just be and not do. If you find yourself feeling uncomfortable when you have spare time then it would suggest that you are using your life 'purpose' as a distraction from actually living, so to speak. It's a sneaky irony.

The ultimate life purpose is to become detached from the need to be doing anything at all, and to be comfortable with that. That's not to say that you shouldn't do anything, but when you have the freedom to choose to take action rather than feeling compelled to take action, you will take more constructive action and get better results. As opposed to taking neurotic action and effectively chasing your own ass throughout your life.

Life-purpose can be considered 'play' but this is the point. It should be more of a relaxed choice rather than a desperate need. It's only 'play' when it isn't 'imposed' upon you by yourself or others.

So what Leo is trying to teach in this video, is the concept of getting more comfortable with doing nothing and just being. And releasing the need to be doing anything at all, at least for a significant portion of your time. More emphasis on being and less on doing. You can still do, but find the time to not do as well.

All the external action that is taken towards personal growth and success can, in itself, be just another distraction from actually living a meaingful life. You'll get better results and feel better about life when you come at it from a place that is not driven by the compulsion to be doing. By comming from a place where you are comfortable with not doing.

[Leo Gura]

Most people's lives have so much fat you could trim without even touching their life purpose.

Life purpose needs to be managed wisely. To become a workaholic at one's life purpose is to lose sight of the bigger picture, and it's a common trap for many media-hailed entrepreneurs and tycoons like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Warren Buffet, etc. These people are successful, but their lives are far less than they could be. Don't get distracted by glamour and glitz. Be a good editor of your own life.

[abrakamowse]

Less is more...

Einstein did that... look

http://calnewport.com/blog/2007/10/10/the-einstein-principle-accomplish-more-by-doing-less/

A quote from the article:

"We are most productive when we focus on a very small number of projects on which we can devote a large amount of attention."

Edited May 26, 2016 by abrakamowse