A man without a plan will almost always get nowhere.
But while you do want to narrow it down as specific as possible.
People often get too caught up at this stage and spend the majority of their time trying to perfect the plan.
Common Productivity Mistakes You Might be Making
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Apply these to significantly improve productivity.
#6 alone will turn you into a machine.
A man without a plan will almost always get nowhere.
But while you do want to narrow it down as specific as possible.
People often get too caught up at this stage and spend the majority of their time trying to perfect the plan.
Pick one skill, one destination, and go.
Optimize as needed.
There is no such thing as perfect, it does not exist.
Your to-do list should not have 20 items on it each day.
Nobody has the capacity to do that many quality tasks.
Adopt the Jeff Bezos style:
3 big tasks each day, 3 decisions to make, as early as possible in the day.
That’s it.
Thing’s that are part of your everyday routine can be systemized.
By doing this you have less thinking and planning to do.
For example, you know you have to do an hour workout every day.
Have your workouts planned and ready.
Just hit go and get to work.
Fewer decisions, more brain capacity for the main tasks you need to do later in the day.
Caffeine is an amazing nootropic if used properly.
Somewhere along the line, it became a social thing and people just drink it to drink it.
For example, I only drink coffee right before I’m doing my big work of the day.
The work that requires the most brainpower.
Don’t fool yourself into thinking you can perform at the top quality when you are trying to do multiple things at once.
One task. 100% focus.
This is the only way you should be doing your major work.
The most common and WORST thing you can do for your productivity
Every time a notification drops in, you lose your whole train of thought.
TURN THEM OFF.
All of them.
You can survive for 2 hours without a dopamine hit.
This alone will skyrocket your productivity.
Try it and see for yourself.
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1/ Some initial thoughts on personal moats:
Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage that is not only durable—it should also compound over time.
Characteristics of a personal moat below:
2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.
As Andrew Chen noted:
3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized
Things that might get commoditized over time (some longer than
4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.
After recorded music, the music itself became abundant and what became scarce was curation, distribution, and self space.
5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.
Like company moats, your personal moat should be a competitive advantage that is not only durable—it should also compound over time.
Characteristics of a personal moat below:
I'm increasingly interested in the idea of "personal moats" in the context of careers.
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
Moats should be:
- Hard to learn and hard to do (but perhaps easier for you)
- Skills that are rare and valuable
- Legible
- Compounding over time
- Unique to your own talents & interests https://t.co/bB3k1YcH5b
2/ Like a company moat, you want to build career capital while you sleep.
As Andrew Chen noted:
People talk about \u201cpassive income\u201d a lot but not about \u201cpassive social capital\u201d or \u201cpassive networking\u201d or \u201cpassive knowledge gaining\u201d but that\u2019s what you can architect if you have a thing and it grows over time without intensive constant effort to sustain it
— Andrew Chen (@andrewchen) November 22, 2018
3/ You don’t want to build a competitive advantage that is fleeting or that will get commoditized
Things that might get commoditized over time (some longer than
Things that look like moats but likely aren\u2019t or may fade:
— Erik Torenberg (@eriktorenberg) November 22, 2018
- Proprietary networks
- Being something other than one of the best at any tournament style-game
- Many "awards"
- Twitter followers or general reach without "respect"
- Anything that depends on information asymmetry https://t.co/abjxesVIh9
4/ Before the arrival of recorded music, what used to be scarce was the actual music itself — required an in-person artist.
After recorded music, the music itself became abundant and what became scarce was curation, distribution, and self space.
5/ Similarly, in careers, what used to be (more) scarce were things like ideas, money, and exclusive relationships.
In the internet economy, what has become scarce are things like specific knowledge, rare & valuable skills, and great reputations.
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