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How to ask open-ended questions
How to avoid awkward silences
How to show interest in others
Write everything down
We all know how fallible our brains can be yet we routinely trust ourselves to remember and follow through on things.
If it’s important, write it down. Reminders, post-its, and calendars are all good tools.
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Peak productivity
You have a window of 2-2.5 hours of peak productivity per day, usually starting a couple of hours after waking.
Those are the hours when you should be working on your most cognitively demanding tasks. The big projects. The stuff that really moves the needle.
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Email breaks
You don't need an email break. It won't refresh you.
Getting your head into and out of your work takes time. Switching tasks has cognitive costs that reduce efficiency.
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Control your environment
... or it will control you. We can’t control our environment everywhere we go, but we have more control than we usually choose to exercise.
If you banish distractions and control your calendar you can make sure your environment is ripe for productivity.
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The biggest time wasters
- Meetings: Schedule your work time on your calendar.
- Email: Most people simply spend too much time in their inboxes to accomplish anything of substance.
- Multitasking:
It lowers productivity.
- “Structured Procrastination”: Doing little ...
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Not having a plan
We are spending more of our time in environments that have their own agendas. Most of the entities in our lives really want us to make mistakes in their favor.
Not having a plan, goals or a system in today’s world is dangerous because the default isn’t neutral.
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How To Be Efficient: Dan Ariely's 6 New Secrets To Managing Your Time
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Always appreciate the time you get, because you never know how much longer it`ll last.
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Write Down Every Idea
“It’s ok, I’ll remember it” should go down in history as the biggest lie we tell ourselves. Out of all the things you pick up during the day, you end up forgetting more than half of it.
So make a habit of writing everything down, even the silly stuff that seem unimportant.
Write them down
Once the expectations of both parties are understood, it is important to write them down.
It is not a legal document, but we all know that we cannot rely on memory alone.
Jot down every single idea you have
Most of us tend to forget things even though we told ourselves "Ah, I'll remember it later. No need to write it down." However, we must think about our future selves. Your future self doesn't know what you're talking about when you mention a word or two.
Instead, ...
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