Counterbalance your worst tendencies
Your productivity system should counterbalance your worst tendencies.
- Fixed-schedule productivity corrects the tendency to work overtime constantly.
- Maintaining deep work hours is used to keep you focused on meaningful work.
- The most important task method works when you have a few difficult tasks that you need to prioritize.
- The Quadrant systems focus on important over urgent tasks.
- The Pomodoro system assumes you are procrastinating because the problem feels too big to get started. This system gets you to focus on the next chunk, not on the entire project.
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