Best Reads Roundup: Not Enough Hours in the Day To Slay Your To-Do List
Timeboxing, apps, hacks; tasks, routines and habits — I've written about these concepts at length. No matter how deeply we master the more granular techniques of productivity, the truth is that none of us can have it all.
Consolidating my work over the last few years, we need a way to apply these techniques and put them to use to achieve the goals truly important to us. This is more than just productivity — it's how to make sure you're spending time on the things that matter most to you.
In last week's digest I shared an article of mine dispelling the popular idea of the "digital detox". In short, there's evidence to suggest that going cold turkey with our tech may actually backfire.
This article builds on that observation; the digital detox fails to reduce the informational clutter in our lives because it cannot and will not do so. What is the alternative?
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How To Declutter Your Closet With a Single Box (Apartment Therapy)
On the topic of decluttering: somewhat in line with our approach to the "digital detox", this author doesn't take a Marie Kondo-style elimination (joyful sparks notwithstanding, treated here as distractions), but instead opts for a more intentional and gradual reduction over time.
The technique is seemingly simple, but there's something surprisingly deep in their insight. In what ways might we apply the idea of an "outbox" to our digital lives?
"It’s like a small commitment toward a little less stress in your life, every single day. And while sitting on your floor in an old prom dress going through every item in your closet does feel kind of good sometimes, getting rid of things that no longer serve a purpose in your life feels better. Trust me."
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
MBA, B.C.Sc, Lifelong Learner
2 年Turning our values into time slices is an art and a science. Like you said, everyday could be a new day or every week or month or year would be a new one with different priorities. But it doesn't mean that our values are changing. We have core values on who we want to be in terms of moral principles. They are like our guardians. They could be refined but rarely changed once you set them as your value. At first I was thinking that they might not be related with allocating time. But those values still help us in how we priotize our time. I would add one more component, a passion, as the accelerator. With a great passion, you won't even get distracted. You will be fully focusing on the value you want to achieve.
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