How To Be More Productive by Working Less
Discover the paradox of productivity: working less to achieve more. Unearth the secrets of efficient time management, the power of strategic breaks, and the surprising benefits of a shorter workday. Let's redefine productivity together.
When it comes to productivity, things are not what they seem
Productivity is a deeply personal thing. We all have different brains and, therefore, different preferences, perspectives, and situations where we feel most effective.
- Develop personal rituals to get your own snowball rolling downhill is likely far more important than what yerba mate supplements to take, or what yoga mat to sit and scratch your ass in the morning.
Leverage and Deleverage Points
Every business, job, or project has a leverage point that instantly makes everything else you do more effective
- Achieving one aspect of your job well can make everything else that much easier……Or that much harder
- For example, in marketing, perfecting branding will make sales easier, traffic better, and people will talk about you and spread your content more efficiently
Strategic Laziness as a Leverage Point
Solving problems is like food for your mind: It makes your mind happy and makes you feel important and worthy and capable.
- Leisure time distracts one’s brain away from problem-solving and work, and makes your brain more effective upon returning to work.
Work as a linear function
The amount of productive output you create is directly proportional to the number of hours you input
- For example, working two hours will produce twice the results as one hour
- However, most thoughtful, brain-intensive work does not unfold like this
- Most types of work, especially work that will make you some money, produces diminishing returns
Work that produces diminishing or negative returns
When it comes to creative work, not only is there a diminishing return, but at a certain point, writing more produced a negative return.
- If you’re exercising your brain by doing any sort of problem-solving, or important decision-making, then you’re limited in how much you can effectively accomplish in a day.