common productivity advice I disagree with — Transcript

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1. 0:00Number one, work smarter, not harder. I
2. 0:03find myself disagreeing with this. You
3. 0:05should just work smarter and harder.
4. 0:07They're not mutually exclusive.
5. 0:10Number two, the 8020 rule.
6. 0:13Uh, I don't know why everyone applies
7. 0:14this to everything. It's an economic
8. 0:16principle that for some reason is just
9. 0:19universally true in every domain. I find
10. 0:21myself anecdotally disagreeing with
11. 0:23that. And on on the premise, like I
12. 0:26don't get why everyone applies it to
13. 0:28everything all the time. Plan tomorrow,
14. 0:31the night before. Uh I feel like for me,
15. 0:35like I know what I'm going to do
16. 0:36tomorrow, like throughout the day. I
17. 0:38don't have to have like a before I go to
18. 0:40bed like debrief of everything. Like I
19. 0:42feel like at that point I'm just would
20. 0:44rather be focused on resting. You know
21. 0:45what I mean? So I don't know. Like I
22. 0:48think like maybe that sounds good in
23. 0:50theory, but in practice like that
24. 0:51literally never happens like that for
25. 0:52me.
26. 0:54Avoid perfectionism by setting good
27. 0:56enough standards.
28. 0:58I think for this it also makes sense if
29. 1:00you struggle a lot with perfectionism.
30. 1:01But like at least personally I feel like
31. 1:04if I were like applying for like a job
32. 1:06and they asked me like oh so all like
33. 1:09the stuff that you've have on your
34. 1:10resume that's like you tried your best
35. 1:13and all that, right? And I was like no I
36. 1:15gave like 80% effort. I'd be like I
37. 1:18wouldn't hire that kind of person. You
38. 1:19know what I mean? So, like I feel like
39. 1:21there's definitely like getting too in
40. 1:23your head, but I feel like you should
41. 1:24just like try hard with like what you
42. 1:26have and like the time limits you have.
43. 1:28You know what I mean? Caffeine creep.
44. 1:30I've really noticed that people in like
45. 1:31the productivity sphere like down like
46. 1:33yerba mate and like stuff like that and
47. 1:35like coffee and stuff. I personally like
48. 1:38used to justify my caffeine addiction
49. 1:40because like Andrew Huberman would drink
50. 1:42like five or like six euro montes a day
51. 1:44and like I really like how I feel in
52. 1:47caffeine but I definitely was super
53. 1:48addicted like to the point where I like
54. 1:50could not function without caffeine and
55. 1:51it was like really bad like it long-term
56. 1:54was a detriment in that I was unable to
57. 1:56work because I was feel I I was unable
58. 1:59to work because I felt so exhausted from
59. 2:01just like not
60. 2:04having caffeine. So, I'll definitely be
61. 2:06careful with how I approach it. Some of
62. 2:07the people that I'm talking about are
63. 2:08drinking like more than like 1,000
64. 2:10milligs a day. And like while that might
65. 2:12be fine for your body, like technically,
66. 2:14like for me, it was like was really bad.
67. 2:16I would not recommend it. Time block
68. 2:19your day. I feel like there's definitely
69. 2:21times where you have to be like locked
70. 2:22in and stuff and you have to be like
71. 2:23focused and time blocked and like have
72. 2:25like a goal and a mission. And I also
73. 2:27feel like there's times where uh it's
74. 2:29like important to be like spontaneous
75. 2:31and creative and experimental. Like I
76. 2:33feel like if you're constantly just time
77. 2:34blocking everything, uh life will just
78. 2:37like fly past you. It'll all become
79. 2:38super
80. 2:40the same. And yeah, uh anyways, I hope
81. 2:43you enjoyed the