Time buckets
Allow small tasks to accumulate until you can efficiently complete them in batches.
Related: Work cycle, Deep work, Frog eating, Invest, Effectiveness
Allow small tasks to accumulate until you can efficiently complete them in batches.
Related: Work cycle, Deep work, Frog eating, Invest, Effectiveness
Creative tasks are best done while low on energy.
Related: Work cycle, Deep work, Scatterfocus, Workplace art
Our go-to approach for problem-solving is to incorporate something new, rather than eliminate something existing.
Related: Systems maintenance, Four-day workweek, Free time, Less mobile
Spiritual and social values have a bigger impact on our happiness than self-centered values.
Related: Productive happiness, Candor
There is no evidence of any effects of growth mindset interventions on academic achievement.
Related: Mindset, Motivation
A habit is an unconscious behaviour that is automatically triggered by an impulse.
Related: Implementation intentions, Environment
We pick up our phones over 350 times per day, almost four times more than in 2019
Related: Task switching, Switch costs
An unstructured 5-minute break from thinking is all you need to get your concentration back.
Related: Work cycle, Deep work, Focus training, Time to flow
Even just one ten-minute guided meditation can improve your ability to pay attention for longer.
Related: Focus training, Impulse, Scatterfocus
Active noise cancelling headphones have no effect on your concentration capacity in open office spaces.
Related: Noise pollution, Open-plan workspace, Deep work
More money will make you happier.
Related: Joy, Productive happiness
Increase employee wellbeing without productivity loss by reducing the workweek to four days.
Related: Hard work, Free time, Indifference, Work about work, Substraction neglect
Workers lose 9% of their time at work by toggling roughly 1200 times per day between applications and websites.
Related: Multitasking, Task switching, Attention residue, Screen size, Phone addiction
Do things that makes you happy everyday, since happy workers are 12% more productive.
Related: Joy, Motivation, Time to flow, Get rich, Social values
82% of knowledge workers check their email within the first 30 minutes of their day.
Related: Frog eating, Deep work, Multitasking, Task switching
Working outside standard work time undermines people’s intrinsic motivation for the job, since they they are more likely to consider how the day could have been spent better had they not worked.
Related: Motivation, Free time, Inspiration, Indifference, Boundaries
Try to complete new tasks on the day you receive them.
Related: Effectiveness, Impulse
The human mind and brain lack the architecture to perform two or more tasks simultaneously.
Related: Multitasking, Task switching, Attention residue, Deep work
Most professionals spend about 60% or their time on work about work.
Related: Invest, Less meetings, Simplicity, Four-day workweek
Professionals lose an average of three hours per week on unnecessary meetings.
Related: Indifference, Work about work
The expectation that you will always check your email outside of working hours is linked with negative health effects, relationship issues and anxiety
Related: Indifference, Work cycle, Hard work, Free time, Standard work time
Employees with private offices have 70% more face to face interaction compared to workers in an open-plan workspace.
Related: Open-plan workspace, Indifference
Long working hours negatively effect cognitive performance
Related: Free time, Monthly map, Time to flow, Indifference, Boundaries, Four-day workweek
An open office is a short-term financial solution with huge intangible long-term costs.
Related: Deep work, Time to flow, Noise pollution, Indifference, Private offices, Headphones
Combine and massage instrument and vocal recordings to get a cohesive and clear sounding song