David Kadavy is Author of Mind Management, Not Time Management. He’s the former design and productivity advisor to Timeful, a productivity app bought by Google and integrated into Google Calendar.

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3 Value Bombs

1) If you only have 24 hours in a day, there is a limit to just how much extra productivity you can squeeze out of that. There’s just a limit to how much extra things you can squeeze into your time. Eventually you are just squeezing blood from a stone.

2) There’s two different ways to approach time. There is the clock time and then there’s the event time. clock time is when you are going by the clock and that’s the main priority. Event time is more about meeting the objective than it is staying on the schedule.

3) There’s just not as much respect for mental state and whether or not now is the right time for something, as there should be.

Show Notes

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Today’s Audio MASTERCLASS: Mind Management, Not Time Management forProductivity When Creativity Matters

[1:01] – David shares something that he believes about becoming successful that most people disagree with.

You don’t need to be filling all moments of everyday life with activity. Moving towards success doesn’t always look like what we think of as being productive. Execution matters, but ideas are mattering more and more.

[3:06] – The benefits and limitations of having good time management.

It’s a foundational way to be productive, to be thinking about your time and the way that you’re going to use that time but it starts to hit the point of diminishing returns pretty quickly.
The basic promise of time management is this idea that if you put in more time to something that you’re going to get a certain unit of extra output from that.
We’re still working on this paradigm of time management, a lot of us. But it’s not so much how much stuff you can output in a certain amount of time.
If you only have 24 hours in a day, there is a limit to just how much extra productivity you can squeeze out of that. There’s just a limit to how much extra things you can squeeze into your time. Eventually you are just squeezing blood from a stone.

[5:59] – The 4 stages productivity.

The first stage is preparation.
We’re often going for that insight which happens to be associated with the stage of creativity, which is illumination. Illumination is that aha moment. It is the light bulb. It is when suddenly you gain clarity.
We need to have some incubation. That is some time spent away from the problem, not immersed in trying to figure it out. It allows some of that information to move from your working memory to your long term memory, and it allows you to rejuvenate.

[9:35] – A timeout to thank our sponsors!

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[12:21] – The fourth stage of productivity.

Verification is looking at the ideas that you’ve had and trying to see if it actually works with the limitations that you have with what you’re trying to accomplish and so.

[13:41] – Time management stifles this creativity that we’re trying to create.

There’s two different ways to approach time. There is the clock time and then there’s the event time. clock time is when you are going by the clock and that’s the main priority. Event time is more about meeting the objective than it is staying on the schedule.
If you’re in an anxious state, it’s really hard to be creative. You have to be in a relaxed, chill state to really get into that mindset, that mind state where you can have those insights, where you could reach that illumination.

[16:07] – The minimum creative dose.

The way to get a taste of mind management is with this minimum creative dose.
With the minimum creative dose, you basically just give yourself the minimum amount that you need to get your brain thinking about this problem, whether that’s consciously while you’re doing other things, or subconsciously while you are doing other things, or while you’re sleeping.

[18:36] – Brett’s key take away and call to action.

There’s just not as much respect for mental state and whether or not now is the right time for something, as there should be.
David’s Website – Subscribe to LOVE MONDAYS NEWSLETTER. A 2-minute read packed with inspiration to make it as a creative. Join thousands of writers, artists, musicians, film directors, comedians, and CEOs.

[20:33] – Thank you to our Sponsors!

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