How to Leverage the Timing of Events in Life
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- Author: curtismchale.ca
- Full Title: How to Leverage the Timing of Events in Life
- URL: https://curtismchale.ca/2018/03/29/how-to-leverage-the-timing-of-events-in-life/
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First our cognitive abilities do not remain static over the course of a day. During the sixteen or so hours we’re awake, they change — often in a regular, foreseeable manner. We are smarter, faster, dimmer, slower, more creative, and less creative in some parts of the day than others. (View Highlight)
reference. The nap, particularly the 20 minute nap where you drink a cup of coffee first2. That nap if done right cleans your brain leaving it ready to work again (View Highlight)
Pink also cites a bunch of research showing that when you finish college and start your career can have 20 year impact on your income. If you start in a weak economy, there are less choices. You’re less likely to move around to find better pay, because there is less opportunity. There is less room to move up and earn more. (View Highlight)
the idea of core hours. This is the idea that everyone must be in the office from say 10-3. All meetings are booked during that time. That lets early people come in early and late risers come in later. They all get to work at their optimal times. (View Highlight)
Pink suggests a premortem. A postmortem, looks back at a problem and helps figure out why it happened. The premortem is the same thing, we just look forward at the problem we’re facing and try to plan around the issues that will arise. You imagine failure, and the things that happened to get you to failure, and you build a plan to counteract them. Do it now. Look 2 years into the future of your work/life. What is going wrong? Why is it going wrong? What are you going to do to help ensure that these things don’t happen to you? (View Highlight)
When we reach a midpoint, sometimes we slump, but other times we jump. A mental siren alerts us that we’ve squandered half our time. That injects a healthy dose of stress — Uh-oh, we’re running out of time! — that revives our motivation and reshapes our strategy. (View Highlight)
While older people may have a smaller close social circle, it’s by choice. They stop spending time with the people that don’t matter. The people that take huge amounts of energy, become not worth the effort. They prune their friends and are happier for it. (View Highlight)review
While older people may have a smaller close social circle, it’s by choice. They stop spending time with the people that don’t matter (View Highlight)review