Mind Management, Not Time Management Quotes

“According to Lee, if you have to think across different subjects, if you work in an “unstructured environment,” or if the outcomes of your work are hard to measure, the work you do will be relevant far into the future. These days, the mental work that matters isn’t about following a series of steps. It’s about finding your way to a novel and useful solution.”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters

“Most people’s idea of productivity is to be able to produce a lot of something. To do a lot. Follow a series of steps, and you’re done. Do it over and over again. But, more and more, if it can be completed in a series of steps, there’s no point in doing it. AI and automation are poised to eliminate forty to fifty percent of jobs within the next decade or two.”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters

“I had discovered that making progress on my first book wasn’t so much about having the time to write. It was about being in the right state of mind to do the work at hand. I had discovered that today’s productivity isn’t so much about time management as it is about mind management.”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters

“Think about how most of us use to-do lists. We have our list of things we need to do, but we don’t know when we’ll do them, or how long those items will take. Our proverbial eyes are bigger than our calendars. The Timeful team came up with a brilliant feature in which you didn’t simply make to-do list items. You could also estimate the time it would take to complete each of”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters

“If you want to kill creativity: Get five hours of sleep a night, fight traffic for two hours a day, and start each day with a piping hot thermos of a psychoactive drug. This is the unfortunate and inescapable reality of most Americans today.”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters

“A deadline would create time pressure, and that would kill creativity.”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters

“If they were only somewhat busy, creative thinking decreased by nineteen percent. If they were extremely busy, creative thinking decreased by a whopping forty-five percent.”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters

“Yet Viktor Frankl, who suffered the horrors of concentration camps, paraphrased Nietzsche by saying anyone who discovers their creative work “knows the why for his existence, and will be able to bear almost any how.”
― David Kadavy, Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters