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"The most fundamental principle of organised mind, the most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world."
DANIEL LEVITIN
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Rest More - Work Less
In our chronically sleep-deprived society, sleep deficit is a performance killer. Studies have found that productivity goes up when the number of hours per week of work goes down, strongly suggesting that adequate leisure and refueling time pays off for employers and for workers....
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Quit Multitasking - Time for Deep Work
Multitasking is - “the ultimate empty-caloried brain candy.”
According to Levitin - “When people think they’re multitasking, they’re actually just switching from one task to another very rapidly. And every time they do, there’s a cognitive cost in doing so.”
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A Zen Mind
A spiritual composure is good for the mental organization. Practicing Zen-like mindfulness not only relieves the anxiety that comes with worries over undone tasks and unease over future uncertainties but also allot more of your limited attention to the present moment.
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Organize Your Surroundings
One of the most important principle is “offloading the information from your brain and into the environment” so you can “use the environment itself to remind you of what needs to be done.”
- You should put things away in their designated places, because ...
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"People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it."
DANIEL LEVITIN
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Conquer Information Overload
In the information age, there are lots of data to consume and simultaneously we have to make more decisions quicker than ever. To survive this information overload -
- Be more aware of what you consume. Don't keep what you can't use.
- Create and use your own orga...
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Spend Only as Much Time on Decisions, Tasks, and Actions as They are Worth
- Most decisions can be reduced to a choice of four simple actions: drop it, do it, delegate it, or defer it.
- If something can be done in two minutes or less, just do it.
Recent research in social psychology has shown that happy people are not people who have more; ...
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