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Start spending some time reading Cal Newport's blog. You still have the problem of deciding which things are important to you, but just immersing yourself in how he approaches focus and deep habits, about how he prioritizes his work, will send you in the right direction. If you time block your available time as he does, you're forced to make choices--there is only so much time available, obviously--and the discipline…
"The art of leadership is saying no, not saying yes. It is very easy to say yes." -- Tony Blair You are saying yes to waaayyyy too much.
This is the first time I run into a quote I like so much from a speaker I dislike so much... I don't think I'll be able to quote him.
Start spending some time reading Cal Newport's blog. You still have the problem of deciding which things are important to you, but just immersing yourself in how he approaches focus and deep habits, about how he prioritizes his work, will send you in the right direction. If you time block your available time as he does, you're forced to make choices--there is only so much time available, obviously--and the discipline…
just replying to this to bookmark for myself to read later. sry
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edit2: Anyone care to explain the downvotes?
Start spending some time reading Cal Newport's blog. You still have the problem of deciding which things are important to you, but just immersing yourself in how he approaches focus and deep habits, about how he prioritizes his work, will send you in the right direction. If you time block your available time as he does, you're forced to make choices--there is only so much time available, obviously--and the discipline…
just replying to this to bookmark for myself to read later. sry
Professionally, it means I only do one priority at a time. When I'm unproductive, I'm almost always thinking about all the useful things I could be doing, rather than doing one of those useful things.
This doesn't mean you can only have one priority. I often have different priorities in different domains. For instance, I have some barbell goals in the gym that are independent than work goals. I just don't set multiple goals in the same area.
I often leave small things undone while focussing. This may or may not be a good thing. If I leave it too long, the clutter becomes distracting and I start thinking of other ideas.
Let me put on my Project Management hat for a moment. I think you first need to enumerate, at the highest level what you want to achieve, should be one sentence or less. Maybe its "Become a world class python oriented Data Scientist". Under that you can break that down into four-ish domains you need to learn, in this case, Statistics, Python, Data Science, Data Visualization. From there break it down into subjects un…
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just replying to this to bookmark for myself to read later. sry
Hacker News is not a bookmarking service, here are some I know of: * https://delicious.com/ - Discover, share, and organize the hottest links online * http://pinboard.in/ - Pinboard: social bookmarking for introverts * http://www.xmarks.com/ - Xmarks | Bookmark Sync and Search edit: links and descriptions edit2: Anyone care to explain the downvotes?
Start spending some time reading Cal Newport's blog. You still have the problem of deciding which things are important to you, but just immersing yourself in how he approaches focus and deep habits, about how he prioritizes his work, will send you in the right direction. If you time block your available time as he does, you're forced to make choices--there is only so much time available, obviously--and the discipline…
just replying to this to bookmark for myself to read later. sry
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