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Personal Socrates with Marc Champagne

A Productive Conversation

CHAPTER

The Socratic Method: A Guide to Productivity

Mike Downey: productivity is not about efficiency and effectiveness, those are byproducts. Productivity is about the alignment and the active linking of intention and attention. He says that if your attention is on something you didn't intend, then you're going to end up in a place you didn't want to go. And if your intention doesn't get the attention it deserves, then you'll languish because I didn't point it in that direction," he says. "I don't want this book to feel like some sort of philosophy book where I was just thinking, oh, it's going to be really dry and this and that"

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