Life · FORTUNE
Fortune #19
Good fortune
An important appointment can feel more manageable with travel and delay buffers. A good plan need not fill every minute.
QUOTE CARD
A quote for you
“ความกล้าหาญนั้นเป็นอันตรายต่อชีวิต ในขณะที่ความกลัวช่วยปกป้องชีวิต”
— เลโอนาร์โด ดา วินชี
ศิลปิน นักประดิษฐ์ และนักคิดพหูสูตแห่งยุคฟื้นฟูศิลปวิทยา
- Person
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Source work
- Quotes / The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (1883) / XIX Philosophical Maxims. Morals. Polemics and Speculations.
- Source text
- Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.
STORY & REFLECTION
A buffer before an important appointment
Guidance-based illustration · A buffer before an important appointment
Illustrative scene: A job applicant plans to leave exactly when a transit app predicts. Rain starts, and the plan has no minute left to absorb a delay.
Next time, they check another route, prepare papers the night before, and leave a realistic buffer. Arriving early creates time to breathe and review questions instead of running upstairs.
NIMH recommends setting priorities, making time for suitable relaxing activities, and noticing what has been accomplished. Self-care need not wait until every task is finished.
A buffer is useful precisely when something outside your control happens.
Reflection
A buffer reduces avoidable rush.
A small action today
Add buffer time to one important trip.
A question to reflect on
Which appointment this week needs a larger buffer?