Observing the expansive universe to quiet the chatter of the mind.

Starry Stillness

Drawing serenity from the moon's gentle glow.

Lunar Light Meditation

Feeling thankful for the cosmic dance and our place in it.

Galactic Gratitude

Letting fleeting thoughts pass by like comets, without holding onto them.

Comet Clarity

Drawing all focus to the breath, letting external distractions vanish.

Black Hole Breath

Grounding oneself by recognizing the vastness of existence.

Planetary Perspective

Finding explosive insights within the silent spaces of the mind.

Supernova Self-Realization

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Cosmic Conduit

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Striving for perfection and harmony in all business aspects, inspired by Tolkien's elves.

Elvish Elegance

Building products that last, reflecting dedication and quality.

Dwarvish Craftsmanship

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Building alliances that can open doors to magical opportunities.

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Siesta Surge

Finding your purpose-driven tasks for unstoppable motivation.

Japanese Ikigai

The sweetness of doing nothing, to refresh and refocus.

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Embracing nonlinear thinking for exponential growth.

Quantum Leaps

Realizing that by giving more, they receive even more.

Radical Generosity

Setting targets that are not just big, but galactic in scale.

Celestial Goals

Crafting their day around energy peaks rather than hours.

Time Sculpting

Facing the biggest business challenges first thing each day.

Dragon-Slaying

Using humor as a tool for innovation and rapport-building.

Jester's Wisdom

Turning failures into golden lessons and opportunities.

Alchemist's Conversion

Seeing their business journey as an epic, filled with trials and treasures.

Odyssey Mapping

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Pyramids of Stillness

Meditating under the mesmerizing Northern Lights for a cosmic connection.

Aurora Retreats

Seeking solitude in the majestic mountains for spiritual grounding.

Himalayan Hideaways

Journeying deep within the Amazon, surrounded by nature's orchestra.

Rainforest Reflections

Channeling ancient wisdom amidst the ruins of Athens.

Grecian Temples

Delving into deep meditation on secluded islands, synchronized with the tides.

Oceanic Oasis

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History Of Frederick Winslow Taylor(You may skip this section)

" In the decade after Frederick Winslow Taylor first looked at work and studied it, the productivity of the manual worker began its unprecedented rise… On this achievement rest all of the economic and social gains of the 20th century ”

“ At the peak of his celebrity in the early twentieth century, Taylor gave lectures around the country and was as famous as Edison or Ford ”

Taylor was a high achiever. He was accepted to Harvard and had plans to become a lawyer just like his father. But then, he started having sharp headaches was later diagnosed with the eye condition of Astigmatism. So, by a weird quirk of fate, Taylor went to the shop floor as an apprentice machinist rather than Harvard to become a lawyer.As a machinist, he noticed that the workmen were not working nearly as hard as they could. So he started to experiment with how worker productivity could be improved.

Who Is Frederick Winslow Taylor?

“ My head was full of wonderful and great projects to simplify the processes, to design new machinery, to revolutionize the methods of the whole establishment. ”

In 1898, Taylor was hired by Bethlehem Steel to make its 600 shovelers more productive. So, he endeavored to create a science of shoveling. First, Taylor questioned basic assumptions:For a first-class shoveler there is a given shovel load at which he will do his biggest day’s work. What is this shovel load? Will a first-class man do more work per day with a shovel load of 5 pounds, 10 pounds, 15 pounds, 20, 25, 30, or 40 pounds?

What Caused The 50x Manual Worker Revolution Boom Is Surprising

Next, he answers these questions with time and motion studies combined with experiments on:<ul><li>Kinds of shovels: They settled on 8–10.</li><li>Shoveling techniques: Testing various distances, weights, and heights.</li><li>Management systems: Training employees on the scientific method so they can perform experiments. Standardizing the winning experiments into the company processes and culture. Providing bonuses to individuals rather than having a common group wage.</li></ul>

Answer To That Question

After much experimentation, he found the optimal shovel load was 21 pounds.The output per man doubled. As a result, employees earned 35% more on average.All of this from turning the simple act of shoveling into a science.

What Was The End Result Of These Shoveling experiments?

Improving Productivity Using Results Of Taylor's Experiments

Taylor, after much experimentation & application like the above example, created a framework called '50X Productivity Framework'.The pnemonic BOOT was used to explain the 4 step procedure to increase productivity

The Boot Principle

Overview: Breakdown every project into its atomic units. It's key to use directo bservation and motion studies to get a high level of granularity. Why It Matters: What's invisible can't be improved. Most work is invisible because most human thought and action is automatic.

B: Breakdown Tasks Into Smaller Tasks

Overview: Measure how long each task takes to get an objective number. As a rule of thumb aim at one minute per task (Ford assembly line's average task length). Why It Matters:We humans are terrible at estimating how long it takes to perform activities. Without accurate estimates, we can't learn from experiments effectively or prioritize what to optimize first.

O: Observe Task Length

Overview: Experiment with every method of improving the efficiency and ideal load of each task in order to find the one best way. This includes redesigning/adding/ removing steps; augmenting or automating with tools; or innovating the process. Why It Matters: Best is often several times better than good enough.

O: Optimize Until You Find The One Best Way

Overview: Train the team to implement the one best way rather than developing their own system from scratch. This includes skill, mindset, and emotional support. Why It Matters: Having a better way doesn't matter unless it's widely adopted.

T: Train The Team In The One Best Way

One of my favorite optimization examples from Ford’s autobiography is a step-by-step overview of how he turned a 20-minute assembly job into a 5-minute one (a 4x improvement)

Optimization Example

Small productivity gains aren’t frivolous. Amazing productivity gains come from small hacks, which individually seem frivolous, but together add up to mind-boggling change.

Taylor's Universal Productivity paradigm

What We Have Been Taught About Productivity Is Fundamentally Wrong

“ Technology alone is rarely enough to create significant benefits. ”

The industrial revolution left us with the suggestion that the cause of the productivity boost was technology. Seeing the productivity graph of the U.S, we can conclude that productivity depends on the person, not his tools.

Does Technology Boost Productivity?

Optimizing the process first is deep productivity. It has the most leverage, but requires rethinking one’s whole production process, which takes a lot of time. Finding quick hacks using the latest tools while using an unoptimized process is shallow productivity. It is like putting lipstick on a pig. It provides quick bursts of productivity, but is not the ideal approach long-term.

Shallow & Deep Productivity

One of the hallmark studies of manual work industrialization is finding the optimal shovel load weight of 21 lbs. If workers attempt to carry too heavy of a load, they risk getting exhausted too quickly and getting injured. Whereas, with a lighter load, their overall productivity per day is higher.Similarly, researchers have made the case that there is an “optimal” load for knowledge consumption and that if we consume too much there are real consequences. Yet, there is no science on the ideal load for knowledge consumption.

Information Overload

“ Info overload often leads to stress, inefficiency, and mistakes that can result in poor decisions, bad analysis, and/or miscommunication ”

“ Today’s knowledge workers waste a third of their day, every day, on activities that could be reduced, consolidated, or eliminated altogether ”

Productivity depends on you, not on the tools you use. To increase productivity, planning is important. Identify each aspect of your work or personal life and try to optimize it by making small changes. Use Taylor's Universal Productivity Paradigm & BOOT Principle to increase your productivity.

Conclusion

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How To Be 50x More Productive

A state of consciousness where you can do any task effortlessly is the flow stateA scientist analyzing data whole night is in a flow state. A topper studying all day is in flow state. Flow State can be described as addiction to work.You lose the track of time, hunger and even the sense of identity when you are in such a state. It's just magic!

What Is Flow State?

1. DOPAMINE:You can do a task for as long as you want until you keep on recieving the dopamine. That's why people following their passion have a higher success rate. 2. Skills VS Challenge Ratio (SC Ratio):SC Ratio has to be 1:1. The skills required to complete a challenge shouldn't make that challenge too easy or too hard. Just the right balance!

How Someone Gets Into Such A State?

I am addicted to coding. You type something and get a beautiful design. It gets you a lot of dopamine. So much that you don't care about the SC Ratio which is 1:1.5

Personal Experience

How Can You Get Into Flow State?

Try to make any task more fun.If it's repetitive or SC Ratio is 1:1, do it with MUSIC.If it's not repetitive, listen to music right before doing it. Do it with your peers. Add Milestones. Example, eating a snack after each 2 hour study session

Make It More Fun

To overcome the resistance by brain, you can simplify the very pressurising hard task into smaller easier tasks/chunks/pieces.

Simplify The Task

Procrastinating till 1 hour before the exam can still secure you an average grade and studying the whole year can also get you an average grade. Deadline pressure forces a flow state, we pace up, and focus really good at that time

Deadline

Your brain assigns a particular task to a place. For example, bed is for sleeping or scrolling. Couch is for TV or gossips. Kitchen's for eating. It's really uncomfortable to interchange the task & the place. Therefore, decide a particular place for your task. Example, a desk for studying.

The Task & The Place

You can't stop yourself from drinking when in a bar. When you are surrounded by comfort zones like bed & couch, do you expect yourself to do uncomfortable tasks? So is assigning a place to a task enough? Nope, you have to change the whole environment if the task is hard. Therefore, going to a library is a more suitable option than a desk.Another main aspect is that a silent, distraction free environment gives you the ability to focus which is very important for flow state

Environment

Assign a span of time to a task and do that task, daily, in that specific time span. Be consistent.

Discipline

What's more inspiring than peer pressure? Doing a particular task with your peers helps build peer pressure. It also helps in completing a task easily if your peers are smarter than you.

Peers

Distraction free environment is important for focus. Habits like Meditation, less dopamine consumption, etc. also help in focusing.

Focus

Your mind will resist the task you are doing. It will resist by giving you tasks which give you more dopamine. But, when everything you do gives you nearly the same amount of dopamine, then your brain will resist less. Therefore, delete all your dopamine sources such as social media, TV, Netflix, etc. if you are on an important endeavour.

Resistance By Mind

Think of yourself as an ape and give that ape the task you want to do.Example, how will you make an ape play minecraft1. Simplify Minecraft. Add swiping for movement instead of joystick. Add touches for breaking stuff.2. Give a mini tutorial: Break the task into very small chunks and give some dopamine after completing each task. Example:Learnt moving -> Peanuts -> Learnt Breaking -> Peanuts -> Learnt Hunting -> Peanuts3. Make that task the most rewarding. Don't let that ape discover tasks more fun.4. Do it in a specific place & time inside a room, not a forest.

The Ape Theory

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Explore the defining features of being in a flow state, and get tips on how you can find flow in your daily life.

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How to enter flow state

How To Enter Flow State

This routine is simple: right when you wake up you go and exercise. Before eating breakfast, checking your phone and emails or watching some television—go out and move.The first benefit of this is that it puts fitness in that all-important first slot of the day. If you’ve struggled with staying on a regular exercise schedule in the past, this can be a good way to make sure it is a priority.Second, this habit can wake you up. Exercise can keep you alert and mentally functioning at your prime, when a coffee may only be able to slightly prolong your later-day crash.

1. Exercise and Energy

Contrary to the first one, this starts with daily meditation. It’s important to do seated meditation and not do so lying down in your bed, or you’ll be likely to fall back asleep. Useful if you expect to have stressful days ahead to start yourself off with a quiet mind. Meditation allows your mind to wake up without strain so by the time you hear the final gong you’re fully awake.

2. Meditation and Stillness

Of all the different things you can try to improve your productivity, a morning routine is one of the most effective.

How you start your morning determines the rest of the day. Do you want to start with energy, productivity and the right intention? Try these six routines.

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