Author David Kadavy discusses the limits of squeezing productivity from time, the difference between clock time and event time, and the importance of respecting mental states for optimal productivity in creative pursuits.
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Ideas Over Constant Busyness
David Kadavy argues you don't need to fill every moment with activity to move toward success.
He says ideas often matter more than constant busyness for achieving results.
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Limits Of Time Management
Time management assumes more time directly yields more output, a failing model for creative work.
Kadavy points out there's a hard limit to squeezing extra productivity from fixed hours.
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Creativity Happens In Stages
Creativity unfolds in stages, and the 'aha' belongs to the illumination stage.
Preparation sets the groundwork so illumination can occur effectively.
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David Kadavy is Author of Mind Management, Not Time Management. He's the former design and productivity advisor to Timeful, a productivity app bought by Google and integrated into Google Calendar.
Top 3 Value Bombs
1. If you only have 24 hours in a day, there is a limit to just how much extra productivity you can squeeze out of that. There's just a limit to how much extra things you can squeeze into your time. Eventually you are just squeezing blood from a stone.
2. There's two different ways to approach time. There is the clock time and then there's the event time. clock time is when you are going by the clock and that's the main priority. Event time is more about meeting the objective than it is staying on the schedule.
3. There's just not as much respect for mental state and whether or not now is the right time for something, as there should be.
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