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26 Mar 09

The David Allen Company - View Single Post - GTD vs. Autofocus ( Mark Forster )

moises creates a work of art distinguishing GTD from AutoFocus:

"I think that you hit the nail on the head in this thread, above, when you focused on the relation between stress, on the one hand, and the clarification of one's desired outcome and next action, on the other.

This is one of the key contrasts between GTD and AF. GTD calls wishes and wants that are fuzzy and unresolved "stuff", and promises us that their translation into clear and distinct outcomes and actions will bring us mind like water, which means the elimination of stress.

AF, on the contrary, almost encourages its practitioners to enter into their lists that which David Allen calls "amorphous blobs of undoability." There is no restriction on what can go into one's list.

GTD structures the items rigorously. AF does not distinguish well formulated from poorly formulated items.

The above sentence refers to the processing stage. Let's now compare the doing stage. How do we decide what to do? Now the positions of GTD and AF are flipped. In processing, GTD was highly restricted, but in doing it is most unstructured. In the GTD book, David writes that doing is determined by "your gut, the seat of your pants, your intuition" (191).

AF, in contrast, has a highly regulated procedure for doing. In fact, AF is nothing other than a set of rules for doing. The rules for doing constitute the entirety of AF."

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  • I think that you hit the nail on the head in this thread, above, when you focused on the relation between stress, on the one hand, and the clarification of one's desired outcome and next action, on the other.



    This is one of the key contrasts between GTD and AF. GTD calls wishes and wants that are fuzzy and unresolved "stuff", and promises us that their translation into clear and distinct outcomes and actions will bring us mind like water, which means the elimination of stress.



    AF, on the contrary, almost encourages its practitioners to enter into their lists that which David Allen calls "amorphous blobs of undoability." There is no restriction on what can go into one's list.



    GTD structures the items rigorously. AF does not distinguish well formulated from poorly formulated items.



    The above sentence refers to the processing stage. Let's now compare the doing stage. How do we decide what to do? Now the positions of GTD and AF are flipped. In processing, GTD was highly restricted, but in doing it is most unstructured. In the GTD book, David writes that doing is determined by "your gut, the seat of your pants, your intuition" (191).



    AF, in contrast, has a highly regulated procedure for doing. In fact, AF is nothing other than a set of rules for doing. The rules for doing constitute the entirety of AF.
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