Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters (Getting Art Done Book 2)

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How effectively we spend those hours really depends upon how well we can manage and harness our fragile mental energy. The work that needed to be done in this example, creative work requiring focus and concentration to produce a PowerPoint document that clearly communicates insights, requires the Generate mental state, which is “the time to do the work.

Best energy should be given to high leverage activities like Generate (working on a new feature in a program, for example). Synthesizing many core ideas from other productivity books (as a lot of my favorite nonfiction books nowadays do) as well as Kadavy's own insights, this is the book I needed to form a more effective writing practice. While the book has some good ideas, it might be hard to follow in real life when things are unpredictable. My workouts come next, and I've learned that I can listen to non-fiction audiobooks or learning-based YouTube videos during that time and retain the information reasonably well.We can build our lives, or at least our work or creative lives, around respecting these four stages by understanding the Seven Mental States of Creative Work, and matching what stage we want to be in with our mental state, or use our mental state to pursue the appropriate stage. That does not say he didnt created a good podcast or is not a good graphic designer or dont have interesting life - his narative about himself just dont corelate with the reality in my eyes (I dont know all Davids work - to this time I read Heart To Start, this book and Davids newsletters, heard some podcast episodes).

Enter mind management, a paradigm shift that promises to revolutionize the way we approach productivity and success.

They can be cultivated by environment and rhythms, but for each of us they are not all available all the time. I’m no GTD expert, and I think GTD needs to be modified for each, but I think he’s talking about a Tickler File, not an inbox.