Scatterfocus
Give your mind time to wander.
Related: Effectiveness, Getting Things Done, Impulse, Monthly map, Joy, Inspiration, Fleeting notes, Focus training, Wandering mind, Creativity without video, Clutter, Meditate, Creative time
Give your mind time to wander.
Related: Effectiveness, Getting Things Done, Impulse, Monthly map, Joy, Inspiration, Fleeting notes, Focus training, Wandering mind, Creativity without video, Clutter, Meditate, Creative time
Any personal effectiveness system that gets tasks out of the mind is Getting Things Done.
Related: Tools for thought, Effectiveness, Monthly map, Personalise, Top of mind
Making it fluent for others to process information, for example by using good audio quality, generates trust.
Related: Teach to learn
A Zettelkasten is an intelligent conversation with my thoughts from the past.
Related: Teach to learn, Getting things done, Self-talk, Originality, Fleeting notes, Permanent notes, Literature notes, Reading is digesting, Top of mind
Large organisations kill workers’ passion.
Related: Effectiveness, Joy, Inspiration, Open-plan office, Hard work, Private offices, Boundaries, Less meetings, Standard work time, Four-day workweek
Get a computer screen big enough to be able to simultaneously see the working document and the reference material.
Related: Standing desk, Switch costs
Value the feedback you receive and be deliberate about the feedback you give.
Related: Originality, Fleeting notes, Social values
Link notes to create a conversation
Related: Tools for thought, Fleeting notes
When helping someone to get unstuck, check whether he or she has enough information and then increase his/her confidence level by finding ways use this information to give advice to other people.
Related: Tools for thought, Create fluency, Self-talk, Originality, Literature notes, Reading is digesting
Rewording a text connects my own understanding with the author’s intention.
Related: Originality, Tools for thought, Inspiration, Teach to learn, Reading is digesting
Capture your mind wandering while reading; get into a conversation with the author.
Related: Tools for thought, Originality, Candor, Scatterfocus, Permanent notes, Reading is digesting, Motive
Use your own words to express your own thoughts.
Related: Effectiveness, Inspiration, Tools for thought, Teach to learn, Candor, Fleeting notes, Literature notes, Think, Brainstorm
Choose a work environment where you can observe other people concentrating on their work. You will automatically increase your own mental effort.
Related: Indifference, Environment, Scatterfocus, Implementation intentions, Originality, Literature notes, Motivation, Creativity without video, Workplace art, Standard work time
Skip the easy wins and tackle the hard task first.
Related: Effectiveness, Implementation intentions, Focus training, Time to flow, Responsiveness, Time buckets
Physical cues affect our state of mind and can be used to switch between different productive modes.
Related: Effectiveness, Work cycle, Implementation intentions, Self-talk, Joy, Inspiration, Reading is digesting, Walk, Ventilate, Interruptions, Less mobile, Workplace art, Daylight, Noise pollution, Background noise, Clutter, Habit
A standing desk does not appear to impact productivity.
Related: Screen size
When you get stuck, talk to the duck.
Related: Teach to learn, Tools for thouight, Environment, Motivation, Gratitude, Interruptions, Word choice, Mindset
Do the right thing, in the right way, and at the right moment.
Related: Indifference, Getting things done, Scatterfocus, Implementation intentions, Monthly map, Cold showers, Multitasking, Frog eating, Environment, Originality, Walk, Free time, Focus training, Simplicity, Interruptions, Invest, Time to flow, Learn from the classics, Personalise, Pile email, Eufriction, Move fast, Time buckets
Explore a map for each month’s cycle that not only includes things to do, but also things to avoid
Related: Implementation intention, Scatterfocus, Work cycle, Getting things done, Effectiveness, Joy, Prudence, Free time, Invest, Hard work