The Counterintuitive Secret to Get More Done Every Day
Once you understand it, your productivity will skyrocket.
The extremely underrated and counterintuitive secret to great productivity is that it’s far more important to focus on what you shouldn’t do than what you should do.
Why?
After all, isn’t the point of productivity to do and accomplish things? That’s why so many people tell us to get up at 5 AM, take cold showers, and all this other stuff: To get results.
Well, yeah, that is the point of productivity… but that’s not how the human mind and how real-life works (as we can all agree).
The human brain, while incredibly beautiful and brilliant, is very imperfect and can sometimes be rather… uh… dumb.
Much like a fish, we’re attracted to shiny objects. Our brains are wired for new, unusual, and contrasting elements. We always like a novelty whether it helps us or not.
As a result, we start gravitating towards countless different tactics that we think might get us results because they seem bright and cool, but they actually take us farther away from where we want to go. “Oh, I should do a TikTok! I should hand out flyers! I should read this article! I should try that life hack.”
