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Directing your attention toward the most important object of your choosing — and then sustaining that attention — is the most consequential decision we will make throughout the day. We are what we pay attention to.
The dread of doing a task uses up more time and energy than doing the task itself.
how important it is to choose what you consume and pay attention to: just as you are what you eat, when it comes to the information you consume, you are what you choose to focus on. Consuming valuable material in general makes scatterfocus sessions even more productive.
Negative self-talk is absolutely, completely normal. One psychologist, Shad Helmstetter, has found that “seventy-seven percent of everything we think is negative, counterproductive, and works against us.
Your Central Executive: This is your thinking and planning brain that lives in your prefrontal cortex.
Productivity isn’t about doing more, faster — it’s about doing the right things, deliberately and with intention.
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One study found that when we continually switch between tasks, our work takes 50 percent longer, compared with doing one task from start to completion.
Time pressure narrows our focus on the task, restricting us from considering a number of more creative ways to complete it. We don’t question our approach as much, because we haven’t stepped back to consider the alternatives. This makes it easier to switch.
Constantly trying to do more things — instead of the right things — leads to more stress, poorer quality of work, and lower productivity.
Make a very detailed plan on how you want to achieve what you want to achieve. What I’m arguing in my research is that goals need plans, ideally plans that include when, where, and which kind of action to move towards the goal.
We have to work with intention as much as possible — this is especially true when we have more to do than time within which to do it.
happiness is nothing more than coming to terms with how things change.
By controlling how much time you spend on a task, you control how much energy and attention you spend on it.
any sufficiently complex decision or idea is also indistinguishable from magic.
Today, time is no longer money. Productivity is money.