Productivity

Marginal utility | Subjective time | Adult learning

Living well, Mindset, Personal Growth, Productivity / By

Marginal utility Marginal utility refers to the additional benefit gained from consuming one more unit of something. Applied to life: Marginal utility reminds us to seek balance and avoid overdoing things. “Everything in moderation, including moderation.” — Benjamin Franklin Subjective time Time is constant for everyone. Yet everyone perceives it differently. This difference in perception …

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Ideas are combinations | Done list | Triple loop learning

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Ideas are combinations Ideas are not created in isolation; they emerge through combinations. If you want to excel at ideation, you need to explore widely, stay curious, and be unabashed of sounding crazy. “Creativity is just connecting things.” — Steve Jobs Done list A To-Do list is designed to help you be productive and focused …

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Questioning | The joy of running | Post-vacation stress

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Questioning You were rewarded for giving the right answers. Hardly were you incentivized to frame the right questions. Rarely were you credited for finding answers to your own questions. But life has always incentivized those who questioned and tried to find the answers to their questions. The incentive is the enriching experience you gain when …

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Defining productivity | Tribute to Wordsworth | Exhaustion and default

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Defining productivity Living on a farm can shift our perspectives about how we define work. As I watched the people carry about their work caring for their livestock, cleaning the pens, I wondered how they define their productivity. Working on the farm is hard work with a lot of uncertainties and constraints. Yet, Farmers seemed …

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Indicator of calmness | Working with intensity | The power of labeling

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Indicator of calmness The test of calmness is not the absence of stress but our ability to handle stress and come back to equilibrium as quickly as possible. Our threshold and our time to recover are good indicators of how calm we are as a person. Working with intensity Whenever I have spent more time …

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