I love reading about ways to be more productive. Here are a bunch I read from the Cut that I think others would find interesting:
- Everything Always Takes Longer Than You Think
- Humans are really really bad at planning. Like, we exceed our worst case expectations bad
- This is called the planning fallacy. One solution is to use a “pre-mortem”, detailed in the next article
- To Reach Your Goals, Imagine You Already Tried and Failed
- One way to get around that is to do a “pre-mortem”, pretend its some point in the future and the plan you put in place went horribly wrong – and write a retrospective detailing what happened and why
- How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym
- Exercise is really good for you for reasons other than physical health. It can increase your ability to handle discomfort, and improve your ability to self-regulate
- Also see this podcast about dopamine, and how pain is necessary to feel pleasure
- You Need a Schedule
- You need structure – a schedule gives you peace of mind through order and predictability
- People who use to-do lists get more things done, organized paper lists are better than digital or unorganized lists