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John Fitch
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October 13 - November 5, 2020
putting ourselves in new and unfamiliar situations and environments – for example, while traveling or at play
mindfulness practice – such as meditation or reflection
exposing ourselves to nature.
exercise.
“focus your online time on a small number of carefully selected and optimized activities that strongly support things you value, and then happily miss out on everything else.”
Every new tool or technology should be carefully evaluated, and only if it adds a lot of extra value – and it is up to us to define what value means – should we adopt it.
She sometimes prints or writes down their schedule, as well as phone numbers they might need.
“Boredom is anxiety about absence of meaning in a person’s activities or circumstances.”
“work, regardless of its nature and kind, should never encroach upon people’s life, their rest, the time they need to find a balance between their soul and their body.”
Audit your creative skill set
Strategy is a core component of knowledge work. Creating and updating a strategy requires the ability to use divergent thinking (the skills to ideate and think big picture) and convergent thinking (the skills to drill down and hyper-focus).
designing, making, coordinating, and delivering.
Aarstol is confident that you can reduce your hours by 30 percent without diminishing your productivity:
Enforce strict deadlines and develop systems to free up time
In the future of work, the relationship between productivity and leisure is no longer “either-or,” it is “both-and.”
Managers should take a serious interest in this issue. Burned-out people are not just suffering themselves; they also affect their coworkers, dragging everyone’s motivation and productivity down with them.
any environment that consistently leaves you feeling bad about who you are is the wrong environment,”
4 percent of your savings is a good safe withdrawal rate,
“How would you run your own life, with a continuing desire to create but no immediate need to make the next mortgage payment?”
“Exercise and family time put me in a great mind frame before getting down to business.”
My secret ‘life hack’ has also been to write it down!
Journaling, shared meals, and exercise
