I want to try being totally silent for an entire month and not say a single word. I find that crazy ideas like that, that don't seem to be intricately connected with productivity, sometimes end up teaching me the most because I approach product to the idea of productivity through a way that nobody has really approached it before. You know, people have tried experiments with their work and written about it extensively. But you know, those crazy ideas, like one of the experiments that I did was watching 296 TED talks over the course of seven days. It's crazy experiment ideas like that,. that are kind of on the top of my mind. Again, I wish I had more time for it right
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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