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Cultivating a growth mindset and embracing challenges
Developing adaptive thinking and problem-solving skills
Effective learning frameworks and approaches
For more mental space and focus
- Answer the “why” and “what” for each of your regularly scheduled meetings.
- Set office hours for interruptions, emails, and conversations.
- Clean up your desk (and your desktop).
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The hard thing about small tasks
We're pretty bad at estimating how much time a task will take, even if we’ve done that task before.
When you’re trying to implement the 2-minute rule, you might find yourself spending hours on that “easy” email you wanted to write.
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The 2-minute rule
If a task takes less than 2 minutes, then do it now.
If the effort to keep remembering a task is more than just getting it out of the way now, then do it.
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Getting Things Done: the basics
- Capture. Write down everything you need to do.
- Clarify. Break down each task into an actionable next step.
- Organize. Move each of those actionable tasks onto a specific list: E.g: Action: Things to do next, Waiting For: Tasks or projects you’ve delega...
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Fixing small tasks
- Fixing things is empowering. Our confidence increases or decreases based on our ability to make progress.
- Any progress builds momentum (and your mood): No matter how small the task is, crossing it off your to-do list gives you a boost of momentum and enhances your mood...
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Splitting Days: The Alternative For The Rest Of Us
- Not everyone can commit full days of deep focus work, or even manage the whole day.
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Make the urgency bias work for you
- Break your big projects down into simple manageable steps and then set a short deadline for each.
- Switch from “task urgency” to “time urgency” , to choose what really deserves your attention.
- Don’t let urgent tasks control the first hour of your day. Set aside blocks of ...
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