How to Be Awesome at Your Job 042: Contextualizing your To-Do List with Ben Elijah
Popular productivity blogger Ben Elijah of inkandben.com fame teaches how to form effective habits and provides pro-tips on determining optimal contexts to rock your to-do list.
You’ll learn:
1) The importance of context in your day-to-day to-do list, and how you can use it most effectively
2) How Ben jots down ideas while in the shower (and now I do too)
3) How to ingrain new habits by using the habit loop
About Ben
Author of The Productivity Habits, Ben studies how our relationship with information affects the way we live and work. As a writer who straddles science and the arts, Ben has a uniquely analytical approach to problems such as information overload, life goals, and well-being.
Items Mentioned in the Show
- Ben Elijah’s book, The Productivity Habits
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- AquaNotes
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- John Cleese’s speech on creativity
- Ben Elijah’s website
- The discovery of the Higgs Boson particle
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
- Ben Elijah’s twitter
View transcript, show notes, and links at https://awesomeatyourjob.com/ep42
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