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The Busyness Paradox: Addicted To Being Busy

Personal productivity is not about all-round efficiency, and it is wrong to think about your input as that of a machine in a factory unit.
This is further complicated by our mistaken assumption that being in demand means that we are doing a splendid job.
We blur our all boundaries between our work and personal life and every minute of the day is to be kept busy as we rush to attend every meeting, cross out every task from the to-do list or to answer every email that we get.

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Changing How We Understand Productivity

We are not a factory pumping out products. Our constant switching of context, and checking our smartphone notifications/email has a huge impact on our productivity, focus and our ability to get things done. We are rarely productive in the real sense but feel productive doing pseu...

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Learning To Disconnect From Work

There are four elements that need to be done as a ritual to disconnect from work:

Create a shutdown ritual each evening.
Physically separate from your laptop and/or smartphone if possible.
Take some time to relax and reflect on the day, just with yourself.
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The Progress Principle

If we don’t see enough progress by the end of the day, it feels (to us or our superiors) like we haven’t done enough.

Apart from the completion bias, where our brain seems hardwired to wanting to finish the given tasks, we are also having another cognitive bias called the plan...

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Getting Things Done (GTD)

Getting Things Done is a productivity system that helps us capture our work in one place and manage where our attention is going to be. The five steps of GTD are:

Capturing one’s ideas in a tool which is an app of your choice.
Clarifying each task to its next most easy step ...

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The Motivation Trap

Our self-motivation and excitement have a relatively short life span, and while we want to be motivated before we start something, it is only possible once we have begun. This paradox is called the Motivation Trap and basically implies that action precedes motivation and not the other way...

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Completion Bias

Our brain starts to favour small tasks that give a false impression of productivity (woohoo! I just sent out fifty emails!) while we neglect the large, complex but meaningful tasks.

This is known as the completion bias.

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A Threshold Of Success

Take a good look at your life, and the goals you have set, and find out that sweet spot, the threshold of success that you think is ‘enough’ for you to feel productive and successful.

Example: At Google, projects have multiple objectives but instead of an all-or-nothing situation, they...

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Productivity Shame

Work is never finished, and we are unable to disconnect from it, causing us to experience productivity shame, impacting our happiness and creativity.

The modern working profiles (like knowledge work and remote work) do not have strict guidelines on a day’s productivity or ...

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