Best Reads Roundup: 4 Mental Traps That Kill Productivity, Intention, and Information Health
4 Mental Traps That Kill Productivity (NirAndFar)
Many of us make great efforts to be more productive. What often holds us back is an internal tendency toward distraction.
Insidious as these mental traps may be, through identifying and addressing them we can unlock a level of productivity many find difficult to achieve.
How to Spend Your Time on What Matters Most (Greater Good)
The mental traps above lead us to distraction. This doesn't just make us less productive, but also drains away our greatest asset: time.
What does it take to be more intentional about how we spend our time?
"...(the author) and fellow researchers have studied how happiness is linked to discretionary time—when we aren’t doing what we have to do, but what we want to do.
It turns out that there are better and worse ways to use discretionary time if happiness is our goal."
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What’s It All For? (Metaversal Wellbeing)
Improved productivity is what frees us to be intentional about how we spend our time.
We can extend that intentionality to curating our digital experiences, further helping us focus on what's truly important to us.
"Life is like an empty field. With intention it becomes a garden, without it weeds and debris will take over. Something will grow either way, but it’s your choice what takes root." — John Steinbeck
Happy reading!
- Nir
Nir Eyal is formerly a Lecturer in Marketing at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. His first book, Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products , is an international bestseller and taught companies how to design more engaging products. His second book, Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life , reveals the Achilles' heel of distraction and provides a guidebook for getting the best of technology without letting it get the best of us. Nir blogs at NirAndFar.com
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1 年The second article is insightful - such a simple question to ask is this time well spent....she asks ironically as typing a comment on Linkedin.
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1 年Thank you so much Nir Eyal, for sharing this wealth of knowledge. Reading (& studying Hooked) was one of the best lessons I learned in 2022!
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1 年Love your articles Nir Eyal they are always a great read and truly insightful!
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1 年Nir Eyal, What a lovely quote! Thank you for sharing such an wonderful message. "Life is like an empty field. With intention it becomes a garden, without it weeds and debris will take over. Something will grow either way, but it’s your choice what takes root." — John Steinbeck
This is a great round up. Also taking the moment to wish you dear Nir. May the light of your menorah continue to guide millions more in 2023. Hanukkah Sameach