
Ep: 29 - David Allen GTD® Keynote in Milan, Part One
Getting Things Done
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Your Mind Is for Having Ideas, but Not for Hanging on to Them
Your brain developed to something very, very brilliantly so it could survive you're using it right now. And that is long term history and pattern recognition. So your brain is actually bri in the present at seeing patterns and making sense out of it. Your mind does not do that very well. As a matter of fact, guess how many things your head can hang to and function appropriately with that information? Based on new scientific information, four things. Oh, there's a tiger over there. There's a storm coming. I need to build a fire. The babi's crying. That's about it. You will lose perspective on the whole game if you add any more than that.
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