Definition

Tools are ultimately aids to the larger goal of one's craft

• Identify the core factors that determined success and happiness in your personal and professional life. Adopt a tool only if its positive impacts on these factors substantially outweigh its negative impacts
• Requires that these positive impacts affect factors at the core of what's important to you and that they outweigh the negatives.

ref: 202108012122 - The Any Benefit approach to tool selection

Reference

reference: { Deep Work
page: 191
author: & Cal Newport
bib: Newport, Cal (2018). Deep Work: rules for focused success in a distracted world. Grand Central Pub.
tags: #tactic