How To Be More Productive

How to be more productive – 3 Tips you can try this week

#The Idea Dump : I learnt this first from James Altucher who recommends carrying a notebook to capture all the thoughts and ideas that cross your mind.

Over time, he says, you train your brain to become an ‘idea machine’

#2Important vs the Urgent : When listing stuff to do for the day, I time box it into important and the urgent tasks.

Usually we tend to focus on the urgent tasks and ignore important (and usually longer gratification items – ex, Fitness, Up skilling or understanding the business domain)

#Tune out when doing deep work.

You tend to accomplish more in 2 hours of deep-work vs a day of distracted focus.

Naval Ravikant calls this ‘work like a lion instead of grazing like a cow’

Rajan Singh recommends to keep your phones at arm’s distance, switch off notifications and check mails (or slack ) only at pre-defined intervals.

Book recommendation on the topic – Cal Newport’s Deep Work

What are your favourite hacks to live better?

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Ranjani Mani

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