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Demian TurnerA thinker's approach to Getting Things Done. New directions in time management, creative thinking and personal development.
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If you had to complete your most pressing project in half the time you now have available for it, and you didn’t have the option of taking longer, how would you do it? What would you do differently?
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Parkinson’s Law has been reformulated in quasi-scientific locutions that sound even more authoritative: “A task will swell in perceived importance and complexity in direct correlation to the time allotted to it.”
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reformulated in quasi-scientific locutions that sound even more authoritative: “A task will swell in perceived importance and complexity in direct correlation to the time allotted to it.”
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Knowledge work is fundamentally different from manual work,
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It’s different because people can move faster on demand but cannot think faster.
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Think rate
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controlled by factors other than willpower or coercion
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Parkinson’s Law isn’t a falsehood so much as an exaggeration.
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there’s a actually a deep principle behind its occasional success: it forces people to think about their process as a whole instead of figuring it out as they’re going along.
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If you had to complete your most pressing project in half the time you now have available for it, and you didn’t have the option of taking longer, how would you do it? What would you do differently?
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we procrastinate on certain things more than others, depending on the level of focus required.
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Determine how long it takes to complete a task including procrastination time.
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only allot the amount to time that elapsed when you actually engaged from start to finish, which is very likely your concentration threshold.
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Like Murphy’s Law, Parkinson’s Law was coined by a humorist
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Steve WildeGTD Productivity & Creativity |
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jdr santosTools for Thought is a blog devoted to examining new directions and currents in self-development. Rather than emphasize motivation and inspiration, Tools for Thought takes a more operational approach, focusing on techniques and tactics designed for immediate action. Some discussion centers around familiar reference points, like Getting Things Done (GTD), the 80/20 principle and mind mapping, but any tool for thought is up for grabs, as we’ll see.
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Explorations in thinking and doing
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Hendry WijayaPattern Language for Productivity.
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