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Mental Models
Achieving more in less time requires better mental models.
Here's 7 that school doesn't teach you:
Here's 7 that school doesn't teach you:
Strategic Underinvestment
Choose in advance what to fail at.
Don't try and do everything.
Nominate entire areas of your life (E.g., chores) where you won't expect excellence of yourself.
Focus your time and energy on only the most important, high-value tasks.
Choose in advance what to fail at.
Don't try and do everything.
Nominate entire areas of your life (E.g., chores) where you won't expect excellence of yourself.
Focus your time and energy on only the most important, high-value tasks.
Hyperbolic Discounting
We prefer immediate rather than delayed rewards: we discount future events.
This is why bad habits are easy and good ones aren't.
Success mainly boils down to our ability to quell our mind's tendency towards the now and embrace monotonous consistency.
We prefer immediate rather than delayed rewards: we discount future events.
This is why bad habits are easy and good ones aren't.
Success mainly boils down to our ability to quell our mind's tendency towards the now and embrace monotonous consistency.
Rumsfeld's Rule
You go to war with the army you have.
They’re not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Rumsfeld's Rule applied to life:
Start where you are right now.
Don't wait for the perfect time or circumstances.
You go to war with the army you have.
They’re not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time.
Rumsfeld's Rule applied to life:
Start where you are right now.
Don't wait for the perfect time or circumstances.
Hofstadter’s Law
Projects always take longer than expected, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
You're generally bad at estimating when things will get done.
The deeper point: We often have a choice of when to call a project “done.”
Use this choice more often.
Projects always take longer than expected, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.
You're generally bad at estimating when things will get done.
The deeper point: We often have a choice of when to call a project “done.”
Use this choice more often.
Elon Musk's Law
If you have a project, combat Hofstader's Law by setting a ridiculously ambitious deadline.
Even if you fail to meet it, you're still ahead.
Isn’t it better to miss an aggressive deadline than a conservative one?
It's no wonder Musk has achieved so much.
If you have a project, combat Hofstader's Law by setting a ridiculously ambitious deadline.
Even if you fail to meet it, you're still ahead.
Isn’t it better to miss an aggressive deadline than a conservative one?
It's no wonder Musk has achieved so much.
Parkinson’s Law
Work expands to fill the time allotted to it.
If you allocate 4 weeks, it will take 4 weeks. If you allocate 10 days, it will take 10 days.
Remember: The sooner you finish, the sooner you can move on.
You also never know when finishing early might help you.
Work expands to fill the time allotted to it.
If you allocate 4 weeks, it will take 4 weeks. If you allocate 10 days, it will take 10 days.
Remember: The sooner you finish, the sooner you can move on.
You also never know when finishing early might help you.
Subtraction As The Antidote To Abundance
Forget all the productivity advice you've heard.
Focus on one thing: Minimising distractions.
Turn off notifications.
Quiten your environment.
Delete social media apps.
Block distracting websites.
Leave your phone in another room.
Forget all the productivity advice you've heard.
Focus on one thing: Minimising distractions.
Turn off notifications.
Quiten your environment.
Delete social media apps.
Block distracting websites.
Leave your phone in another room.
TL/DR:
1. Strategic Underinvestment
2. Hyperbolic Discounting
3. Rumsfeld's Rule
4. Hofstadter's Law
5. Elon Musk's Law
6. Parkinson's Law
7. Subtraction As The Antidote To Abundance
1. Strategic Underinvestment
2. Hyperbolic Discounting
3. Rumsfeld's Rule
4. Hofstadter's Law
5. Elon Musk's Law
6. Parkinson's Law
7. Subtraction As The Antidote To Abundance
That's 7 mental models that will help you achieve more in less time.
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