When you meditate, you train your brain to be able to dedicate more attention to whatever you want to be doing in the moment. There's these incredible connections between practices like mindful eating and mindfully washing the dishes or meditating and becoming more productive. It was kind of hard for me to rectify the connection between meditation and productivity at first because practice a lot of parts of Buddhism. I'm pretty into it quite a bit at the time.
For exactly one year, May 1st, 2013 – May 1, 2014, Chris Bailey of ‘A Year of Productivity’ and ‘A Life of Productivity’ ran productivity experiments on himself. In this episode, he and Erik talk about some of the findings he had from those experiments, such as:
Tweetable quotes from this episode:
- [tweetable]When you bring more of yourself to what you’re doing, you can dive into it deeper and do it a lot better.[/tweetable]
- [tweetable]Intention behind your actions is like wood behind an arrow.[/tweetable]
- [tweetable]Meditation trains your attention muscle to dedicate more attention to whatever you want to do in the moment.[/tweetable]
- [tweetable]You know how you know if something’s important? If you’ve done it already.[/tweetable]
- [tweetable]Just because you feel productive, doesn’t mean you’re actually productive.[/tweetable]
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