David Allen on Getting Things Done, Decluttering Your Mind and How to Get Your Brain Some Rest
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- Опубликовано: 5 июл 2024
- David Allen on Getting Things Done, Decluttering Your Mind and How to Get Your Brain Some Rest
David Allen has taught leaders around the world how to be more productive and find more peace through his Getting Things Done methodology. David covers how to organize your life, declutter your mind and get your brain some rest. He's been called one of the world's most influential thinkers on productivity. Getting Things Done has been published in more than 30 languages. His work has been featured in Fast Company, Fortune, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and more.
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This is such an amazing conversation with David Allen.
Carey, wonderful questioning and listening - truly enjoyable, and 'folloable', if that's a word:-) ! Thank you for this interview.
This. Just. This. Hmmm.
How can capture the ah-has ? …. I literally thought it was just me - and wondered maybe (literally) if I had early onset dementia or something ! That’s no joke…. Why can’t I remember anything!!!! This is why!!! Totally indebted to you for this segment. All of this stuff I truly already “knew” but was never really very well articulated. Thank you.
Love this, thank you so much
lol! Your opening question is what has been rolling around in my brain for while now...isn't David just "over" talking about GTD? lol. No, and that's an indication of following one's calling: never being tired of talking about it. Thanks for this conversation, Carey. M
Appreciate this conversation! I am looking to refine my systems and capture process and this was very helpful!
FASCINATING
if i ever had the chance to interview david allen i would ask him his advice on how does he focus on the present while he knows that he (and everyone else) has on average 150 next actions on their list?
If you consciously do the Clarify process, you will only leave the things that you must resolve until the Next Weekly Review, be it because it is a commitment to another person, not doing it before the next review brings undesirable consequences or you have a firm commitment in do it; this already decreases the number of Next Actions. In addition, when Execute you only go through the actions of the contexts that you have available and you take into account the level of energy you have and the time you have, that gives you a selection that can be in about 20 options at a time. The Context is a very important criterion because what it does, for example, is that if you are going to prepare an email to send a commercial proposal that you have already prepared, take advantage of and answer the emails that you have pending, the same when you sit down to write documents in Word or go to the supermarket for the things for your child's model at once you buy the ingredients for dinner because you already have it written down on your errand list.
the same when you sit down to write documents in Word or go to the supermarket for the things for your child's model at once you buy the ingredients for dinner because you already have it written down on your errand list.
I think he would likely say that once you've got everything written down, arranged into projects with next actions identified you have the entire scope of your tasking understood and then you can use your judgement and intuition on which you need to focus on next. Without that, no matter what you choose to do you will always be thinking there might be something more important that your forgetting about and that sense that you aren't focusing on the right things will drag you down. If you trust that you have a system that has included all the open projects and what it takes to move it forward and what DONE looks like than you can make intelligent decisions. In other words, it doesn't mecahnize everything, you still need to prioritize among among all the choices open to you. It does, however, let you trust that the list of choices you have is the complete one and then you can decide where to focus with confidence.
Ha! I’ve been using GTD for a couple years now, and it was interesting to hear David’s bias against the digital. For capturing, I almost only use Todoist (productivity app), and dictation on the iPhone and even the Apple Watch to get things captured as text. This way I can literally capture anything anywhere anytime. Anyway, great interview as always!
Doesn't he get bored with the Mom to-do list example? What is appropriate engagement, writing it down clearly? The interesting thing is that the mind never stops coming up with crap to do or things to think about, so this is just a bandaid (if even one at all) on the real issue of a restless mind that loves finding new tasks and information. The real solution is to work towards eliminating this restlessness as it appears. Just sit still and you'll see all of the crap from the past, future, and present reappear; but how do you stop that? Einstein had hundreds of projects going at the same time?
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As it is written:
“For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
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