Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters (Getting Art Done Book 2)

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Kadavy’s framework led me to consider how time and energy work together to influence, and perhaps dictate, what I produce in the world, and it is the most valuable part of the book. Paying attention to energy helps me assign tasks more effectively to the mental posture I have at the time and causes me to prioritize my time more carefully.

Intuitively, we know that that's not true but when we actually try to get things done, we do try to manage our time. Creative work, these insights, you can't just put in a unit of time and get one of those insights out. David: I haven't felt a big change during the pandemic. I don't want to spoil what's in the book, but right before the pandemic; I had a couple of the worst experiences that were for me way worse than the pandemic has been so far. David: I was a Getting Things Done early adopter, I guess. Maybe 2003 or 2004 I was in a cubicle in Nebraska, trying to figure out how to handle my first job, and I was using GTD and it was helping me a lot. And that was fine as a designer which I was pretty well trained at and decent at. Sometimes, if I’m working on an important project then I can stretch my working hours to 6:00 PM but no work after 6:00 PM. (this rarely happens) When I talked to neuroscientist John Kounios on my podcast about the neuroscience of creativity, he was saying that it's very easy to get out of an insightful mind state, but it's very hard to get into it. And that's why I like something like a week or as much as I can keep myself from getting stressed out which is difficult to do these days. That's why I take a longer amount of time is because it allows you to get into that area that you would never get into otherwise.In Mind Management, Not Time Management , best-selling author David Kadavy shares the fruits of his decade-long deep dive into how to truly be productive in a constantly changing world. You’ll learn faster, make better decisions, and turn your best ideas into reality. Buy it and start listening today. Brain-Training Apps: These apps enhance cognitive abilities, improve memory, and boost focus. Lumosity is a brain-training app that offers a variety of games and exercises to enhance cognitive functions such as memory and problem-solving. Elevate focuses on improving skills related to reading, writing, math, and more through personalized brain-training workouts.

David: As long as you're having fun. I just can't have fun unless I'm having those sort of things I put out there every once in a while, that like Seth Godin would say, where I'm thinking to myself, ‘This might not work.' When you start a business, you won’t earn millions right away, it will take time if you work properly. Mind Management, Not Time Management" explores a new way of thinking about success. Instead of focusing on how you spend your time, it highlights the importance of controlling your thoughts and feelings. This is a book about maximizing your return on your efforts with knowledge work. It is about living in an unstructured environment, where valuable ideas spring from novel connections: the intriguing marketing plan that catapults your company forward, writing a book worth reading, or designing a garden that brings peace and beauty to your property. Administrate: Put 110% into the work you’re doing and take care of every single detail and examine whether there is scope to improve or not.

Your brain is plastic: Every time your neurons fire, it makes it easier for those pathways to fire again. We believed that the brain was stable after reaching adulthood, but we now know that the brain changes throughout life. This means that whenever you have a thought or action, you make it easier for your mind to repeat it. Due to this, you get positive results later. As far as like best practices, I said a second ago that the KU thing that people write for KU and put their books in KU, that's something that I've tried to avoid. I've tried to be wide, even though it makes no financial sense in the beginning. Mindfulness and Meditation Apps: The book may mention various apps designed to help individuals practice mindfulness and meditation, which are effective for reducing stress and improving focus. Headspace offers guided meditation sessions and mindfulness practices to reduce stress and increase focus. Calm provides meditation exercises, sleep stories, and relaxation techniques to promote mental well-being. You have time. But do you have the energy? You must have done everything you can to save time. For this, you must have used every time management technique. But have you ever noticed that the more time you save, the less time you have? The more overwhelmed, stressed and tired you feel. Time management becomes more and more difficult. But by doing this, you can never move forward with managing your time.

There is a universal excuse which is “I don’t have time to do this or that” which is of course “a lie” The more time that you can get, the more that that allows you to go down different disparate paths that in my experience, it seems like you're going nowhere but when you actually trust yourself to go down those paths, eventually they converge and that's where you find yourself in these places where you actually have something really unique. They'll have one day a week where they work on things that are a little bit higher level. A week is great. You can go even further. You can have it as sabbatical. People take months off for first things sometimes.Benefits: Effective mind management can improve mental health, better decision-making, and increase emotional intelligence. It can also contribute to enhanced creativity, empathy, and overall well-being. Kadavy argues that there are seven mental states, and for us to maximize effectiveness, we need to understand when we are in each of them and how to align ourselves with them.

Journaling: Keeping a journal to record your thoughts, emotions, and daily experiences is a powerful tool for self-reflection and managing your mind. Introducing a new approach to productivity. Instead of struggling to get more out of your time, start effortlessly getting more out of your mind. Everyone has something to teach to those a few rungs down the ladder from them, and something to learn from folks a few rungs above them, too. David Kadavy, an independent creator, "knowledge worker," and host of the popular Love Your Work podcast, is someone many creators can learn from. Doing this can save you time on upcoming trouble. Now use the framework the author gave as a habit in your life. Kadavy offers many examples of how he manages his time, but many of those methods may seem like they are only necessary to you at times. So identify your strategy and start working, keeping in mind the structure provided by the author.The second false assumption that time management makes is that being productive is about producing. About the Author This is one of the things that I have struggled with. This idea of the graph going up and to the right is this idea of there being a steady income that comes in and that each day you're making a little bit of progress on the previous day. The problem with that is that's not really how creative work or creative success works. You have to keep it limited. You can do this through Repetition and Systematization along with keeping Limited. Kadavy talks about Limiting the Mind by applying these mental states for a limited time. This will help you with procrastination. He writes, If you have eight hours a day to work, you have plenty of time to procrastinate. Now contrast that from your typical procedural work, stuff that you already know how to do where there're steps that you can follow, that's different. Insights are like solving a maze where you have to go down all these different dead ends before you can find the solution.