📙 Rule #4: Drain the Shallows
by elangelgris · 16 things on Twos
- Shallow work does not become dangerous until you add enough to begin to crowd out your bounded deep efforts.
- "Treat shallow work with suspicion because its damage is often vastly underestimated and its importance vastly overestimated."
- Schedule your day. If it is disrupted, take a few minutes to revise the schedule at the next available moment.
- balance "When you work, work hard. When you're done, be done"
- schedule The goal of scheduling is not about constraint, it's instead about thoughtfulness.
- Meditate productively
- The goal is not to stick to the schedule at all costs. It's instead to maintain a thoughtful say in what you're doing with your time going forward
- If you stumble onto an important insight, then it is a perfectly valid reason to ignore the rest of the schedule for the day.
- "Deep work habit requires you to treat your time with respect"
- Tips:
- Tip #1: make people who send you email do more work
- Tip #2: do more work when you send/reply to emails
- What is the project represented by this message?
- What is the most efficient (in terms of messages generated) process for bringing this project to a successful conclusion?
- Tip #3: don't respond
- Tim Ferris once wrote: "Develop the habit of letting small bad things happen. If you don't, you'll never find time for the life-changing big things."