12 Key lessons from "Mind Management Not Time Management" by @kadavy:
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"Being productive today isn't about time management, it's about mind management."
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"Time management optimizes the resource of time. Mind management optimizes the resource of creative energy."
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"Not all hours are created equal: If you write for an hour a day, within a year you'll have a book. But you can't instead simply write for 365 hours straight, and get the same result."
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"The First Hour Rule is simply this: Spend the first hour of your day working on your most important project."
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"If you start your day working on the most important thing, there's less of a chance for other things to get in the way."
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"Sometimes your mind is better-suited to think creatively. Sometimes your mind is better-suited to think analytically."
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"The point of time is not to fill as much life as possible into a given unit of time. The point of time is to use time as a guide to living a fulfilling life."
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"A one-hour increase in average daily sleep raises productivity by more than a one-year increase in education."
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"When you randomly switch from one activity to another, your energy leaks...If you're doing that all the time, little of your energy is going toward traction."
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"A Harvard study found that the busier knowledge workers were, the less creative they were."
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"Noise level can also affect your ability to think creatively...studies suggest that a background noise level of about seventy decibels is optimal for idea generation."
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"Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them."
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