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6. Embrace boring and single-purpose technology

6. Embrace boring and single-purpose technology

Combat distractions by making your devices as boring as possible, removing social media apps and, if you dare, email. It’s also helpful to choose devices with only one purpose, such as the Kindle reader or a DSLR camera. Otherwise, temptations will be only a swipe away, and you would always feel the urge to do irrelevant things.

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1. Adopt a “fixed volume” approach to productivity

1. Adopt a “fixed volume” approach to productivity

Keep two to-do lists:

  1. For everything on your plate.
  2. For the 10 or fewer things that you’re currently working on.

Fill up the 10 slots on the second list with items from the first, then set to work. The rule is not to move any further items from the first list onto ...

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9. Cultivate instantaneous generosity

9. Cultivate instantaneous generosity

Whenever a generous impulse arises in your mind, give in to it right away rather than putting it off. Don’t pause to think if the recipient deserves your generosity or if you really have the time to be generous right now (with all of the work you have left to do!). Just do it. The rewards are imm...

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10. Practice doing nothing

10. Practice doing nothing

Doing nothing means fighting the urge to change your experience, people, or things in the world around you, and to let things be as they are. Try the "do-nothing" meditation by setting a timer for 5-10 minutes, and then try doing nothing. If you catch yourself doing something — thinking, say, or ...

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5. Consolidate your caring

5. Consolidate your caring

Social media is a giant machine for getting you to spend your time caring about the wrong things — and too many of them at once.

Consciously choose to care about charity, activism, and politics — and devote your spare time only to those specific causes. Focus your capacity ...

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7. Seek out novelty in the mundane

7. Seek out novelty in the mundane

Time seems to speed up as we age, likely because our brains encode the passage of years based on how much information we process in any given interval.

The standard advice is to combat this by cramming more novel experiences into your life. It's not always practical.

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4. Focus on what you’ve already completed, not just what’s left to do

4. Focus on what you’ve already completed, not just what’s left to do

It’s easy to grow hopeless and feel ashamed when you can’t get through your whole to-do list. One counter-strategy is to keep a “done list,” which starts empty first thing in the morning, but which you can gradually fill in throughout the day as you get things done. It reminds you that you could ...

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2. Serialize

2. Serialize

Focus only on one big project at a time. It might seem alluring to get everything off your plate quickly. But multitasking rarely works well — and you’ll soon find that serializing helps you to complete more projects anyway, thereby helping relieve your anxiety.

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3. Decide in advance what to fail at

3. Decide in advance what to fail at

You’ll inevitably underachieve at something, simply because your time and energy are finite. But strategic underachievement — nominating in advance the areas of your life in which you won’t expect excellence — helps you focus your time and energy more effectively.

For example, you might dec...

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8. Be a researcher in relationships

8. Be a researcher in relationships

When faced with a challenging or boring moment in a relationship, try being curious about the person you’re with, rather than controlling. Curiosity is a stance well-suited to the inherent unpredictability of life with others, because it can be satisfied by their behaving in ways you like or disl...

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