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What is your least popular but deeply held opinion on personal productivity?
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The secret to productivity is managing energy not time. You can get more done in less time using the mental equivalent of high-intensity interval training: alternating between eustress sprints (hyperfocus, high arousal) and recovery (inward focus, low arousal) to prevent burnout.
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Excellent article on the Keystone Habit! Goal setting with pts, and even personal goals, can be daunting. I never set New Years resolutions but this year I think using the Keystone Habit in my personal life will be it!
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Seems like a quote from 'The Power of Full Engagement' - a great book, btw!
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Great book, though the ideas are based on my psychologist colleague Dr. Ernest Rossi’s book, “The Twenty Minute Break”.
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Hi Dr. Sepah, what's an example of high and low arousal?
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"Arousal" (low to high energy) "Valence" (negative to positive energy) "Focus" (inward to outward focus) Listening to pump-you-up music while working rapidly is high arousal, hyper(outward)focus, and positive valence if you find the work sufficiently interesting/challenging.
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I feel like this when I use a timer - like a generic Pomodoro style thing ... can really focus when I have a timer going
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been doing pomodoro 25 minutes with 5 minute breaks for the past couple of weeks. 4hrs a day of this deep focused work has been so productive and also gives me a sense of completion each day that i didnt realize i desperately needed.
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I concur, my recent experiments with practising the piano in different ways, including switching between intense and easy practice, seem to bear this out.
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Can you elaborate? For me it's very hard to create those hyper focus moments artificially. What works best: taking a flight and work through those hours without interference. How do you create these situations in the office or at home?
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At home put on a movie you know on mute in the background and m it becomes your new unit of time. Lord of the Rings extended versions works great. Power through it and you have a nice 3-4 hours chunk of work dominated.
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Or sandstorm on repeat. You may think I’m joking but I have been fairly successful and productive with this method.
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Haha. Honestly, this is one of my magic tricks. Listening to song on repeat for hours. Same song, it becomes a background noise and a rhythm your mind works on. So good.
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Sign me up for Mental HIIT.
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I also firmly believe in this. Specially in engineering and software development where quality and productivity comes with mental clarity more than with long working hours.
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Agreed!!
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I agree totally! It’s about efficiency - or efficiency of flair. All these things are transferable across life , business sport etc
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Yes, 100%! I'm surprised this is an unpopular opinion, though... Seems like an obvious observation.
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