Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks
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Expressive Writing Cools Brain on Stressful Tasks
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#2This study gives credence to the GTD's book claim that putting all of your tasks in an "inbox" reduces stress, which was the only worthwhile insight I got from it.
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#3This study gives credence to the GTD's book claim that putting all of your tasks in an "inbox" reduces stress, which was the only worthwhile insight I got from it.
What about the two-minute rule for processing said inbox? Or defining projects as TODO's that require more than one step to complete? The GTD book has been a gold mine for me.
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#4This study gives credence to the GTD's book claim that putting all of your tasks in an "inbox" reduces stress, which was the only worthwhile insight I got from it.
Speaking of GTD - if you found the book impossible to read, consider watching this video version: https://www.lynda.com/Business-Skills-tutorials/Getting-Thin...
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#5That's why keeping a journal or diary can be helpful as well.
http://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/writing-in-a-diary-can-redu...
Or alternatively, the Ignatian daily examen:
http://www.ignatianspirituality.com/ignatian-prayer/the-exam...
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#6Is it writing did the trick, or any verbalization will do? Maybe all you need is to spend 8 minutes on thinking about task?
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#7I have also found that it helps to put swear-words in the commit messages when I'm struggeling a lot with something.
Once I get to that point I will stop working on that specific problem until the next day, but swearing about it in the commit message helps me not think about it anymore and also when I come back to it the next day I can see from the commit what I was struggeling with.
Obviously only do this for repositories that you aren't sharing with anyone.
You could also do it in a shared repo if you don't push the commits and you squash them first. Personally I'm not a squash kind of person and I'd also fear that I pushed without remembering to squash even if I really were planning on squashing.
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#8I have also found that it helps to put swear-words in the commit messages when I'm struggeling a lot with something. Once I get to that point I will stop working on that specific problem until the next day, but swearing about it in the commit message helps me not think about it anymore and also when I come back to it the next day I can see from the commit what I was struggeling with. Obviously only do this for reposi…
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#9Is it writing did the trick, or any verbalization will do? Maybe all you need is to spend 8 minutes on thinking about task?
I think the point is to externalize the concerns. If you only think about them, they are still "on your mind", whereas if you write them down, they are in a conceptual external storage and you can stop thinking about them.
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