Avoid The Temptation
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Avoid The Temptation
Now I put potential Bright Shiny Objects through the filters of: Why am I doing this? Is this just a distraction? What am I really seeking? And do I already have it? What are other ways to achieve the same thing? What should I really be focusing on right now?
Katie Lee • The Effortless Everyday: How to design your daily life to free up time and energy for what really matters
This also makes it easier to see why the strategies generally recommended for defeating distraction—digital detoxes, personal rules about when you’ll allow yourself to check your inbox, and so forth—rarely work, or at least not for long. They involve limiting your access to the things you use to assuage your urge toward distraction, and in the case... See more
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Addictive websites of the type mentioned previously thrive in a vacuum: If you haven’t given yourself something to do in a given moment, they’ll always beckon as an appealing option. If you instead fill this free time with something of more quality, their grip on your attention will loosen.
Cal Newport • Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Maintenance tasks in our life and in our projects are usually very clear-cut. They seductively offer a clear problem and a clear solution. The structure-seeking part of or brain loves this and will endlessly procrastinate important ambiguous tasks in favour of taking these on.
When we are pulled into this game we usually think: “let me just check al... See more
When we are pulled into this game we usually think: “let me just check al... See more
Scott Stevenson • How to Finally Make Something
You are being tempted right now, and so am I. Most of the time we don’t even know it. And in every one of those moments we want either to overestimate or underestimate the power of that temptation. We overestimate it by thinking something along the lines of, “I have these feelings, so therefore I’m predestined to be this kind of person.” We underes
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