Giving this a try for a few months: I'm going to pare down the amount of 'actionable' content I read, in order to reset my 'to-experiment' buffer to a more manageable state.
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I think it's easy for us to read 'how-tos' without actually trying the techniques for ourselves. Hell — even a good one-on-one with a friend results in half a dozen things I'd like to put to practice.
's ideas around Theory of Constraints are particularly useful here.
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He points out that if you're limited by a bottleneck, the solution isn't to try and increase the inputs — the solution is to either:
a) widen the bottleneck, or
b) flatten the throughput!
fortelabs.co/blog/theory-of
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Which led me to realise that — why am I consuming so much 'how-to' content anyway? Most of it ends up in a note-taking app somewhere, never to see attempted practice.
Better to attempt to integrate it into my life, and to accept the constraints I have around action.
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Looking back — too much was piling up in my to-experiment and my to-do pile. That's as sure a sign of a bottleneck as any, I think!