Productivity
by juarry · updated 2d ago
Productivity
Copy and paste these ChatGPT prompts to complete your hours of work in seconds: https://t.co/DL42GAU7Ofjuarry added 2d ago
- “A lot of writing consists of waiting around for the aquarium to settle so you can see the fish. Walking around muttering seems to hasten the process. Taking public transportation nowhere helps. Looking out the bus window lets the back of your mind move forward. Don’t listen to anything but natural sound. Don’t look at anything you have to turn on.... See more
from The North Shore by Austin Kleon
juarry added 3mo ago
“What I need, what I am trying to build, is — I coin this phrase by analogy to a memory palace — an attention cottage . ... When I sit down in a chair with a book in my lap, a notebook at my side, and no screens within reach or sight, I am dwelling in my attention cottage.
The great artists and thinkers cultivate a systolic/diastolic rhythm, tension
... See morefrom 1, #86 - How to survive in a world of distraction by Alan Jacobs
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- I could spend my entire life checking off items on my to-do list, and in the end, it would make very little difference. I didn’t want my epitaph to read, “She got a lot of stuff done.” Instead, I had to figure out how I, and I alone, could make a difference—and this was as true for my homelife as it was for my professional one.
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- Let go of the thing that you’re trying to be (the noun), and focus on the actual work you need to be doing (the verb). Doing the verb will take you someplace further and far more interesting.
from Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
juarry added 7mo ago
- “The phone gives us a lot but it takes away three key elements of discovery: loneliness, uncertainty, and boredom. Those have always been where creative ideas come from.” —Lynda Barry
from Keep Going: a book by Austin Kleon by Austin Kleon
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Just like listening in the dark, take notice of the moments of your day when you experience the most frustration, stress or disappointment.
from Frictionless Freelancing by Aaron Mahnke
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