Mind Management, Not Time Management: Productivity When Creativity Matters (Getting Art Done Book 2)

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From that blog post, a couple of years later, a behavioral scientist named Dan Ariely reached out to me, wanted to know if I wanted to collaborate on a productivity app based upon this mind management idea. We collaborated on that. Google ended up buying that app. Now, this doesn’t mean you have to work 24/7, this means, you have to work smart by Prioritizing important tasks and skipping unimportant tasks. All right, all right, all right: The affable, laconic actor delivers a combination of memoir and self-help book. On the other hand, if we use Mind Management, we could save much of our time. Sometimes it doesn’t seem real, but actually, it can make a strategy. We are using which you can make your work less painful. All you need to be creative is to make your job easier and less painful. from different areas of the mind, disparate elements all happen pretty suddenly, and in just a few moments, some of them hit, and then you have an insight, and it’s a good idea. Understanding is like solving a maze where you must go through all the different paths before finding the solution. I said to myself, ‘Well, why can't I just sit down and do that 15 minutes or writing and get on with the rest of my day? Why do I have to sit and agonize and wait for that moment to come?' And that's when I started trying to find some patterns and ways of working that would make those creative bursts happen on command when I wanted them to.

In Mind Management, Not Time Management, best-selling author David Kadavy shares the fruits of his decade-long deep dive into how to truly be productive in a constantly changing world. I'm personally very influenced by the writing of Nicholas Nassim Taleb, who writes a lot about randomness. And he talks about these two worlds of Mediocristan and Extremistan. Mediocristan is this world where things are predictable and stable. And Extremistan is this world where things are unpredictable and unstable. Just knowing what these are is very helpful for people who create (pretty much all of us), but David helps us see that we can't just call up these on demand; our minds need to be in the right state for them. We can build our lives, or at least our work or creative lives, around respecting these four stages by understanding the Seven Mental States of Creative Work, and matching what stage we want to be in with our mental state, or use our mental state to pursue the appropriate stage.Meditate: By practicing mindfulness meditation, you can become aware of your current environment. We carve neural pathways to better process stimuli, making you calmer and more intentional. Suppose you can’t meditate for 2 to 10 minutes; you have more significant problems than being “too busy.” That’s why I make a habit of meditating daily. Mind management is being creative, having ideas, and making things happen. One of the best things I’ve learned from this book is to be in a state of mind where I can find my Creative Sweet Spot and perform my important task. 🎯 It seems like the more that you don't take risks, the more that you are looking for that graph going up and to the right, the less you have the opportunity for those crazy breakthrough successes to happen. Intuitively, we know that that's not true but when we actually try to get things done, we do try to manage our time. Creative work, these insights, you can't just put in a unit of time and get one of those insights out. Do in only five minutes what used to take all day.Let your “passive genius” do your best thinking when you’re not even thinking.

What kind of mental state am I in right now? Am I in the mood for draft writing, outlining, researching, exploring, or polishing? (Throughout the process, I began to codify the different types of work required to produce my writing.) Finally, one day, the man could not bear it and asked the saint about it. The saint replied, I do this so that the utensils do not remain dirty and because there is a possibility of dust settling on them even at night, so I clean them in the morning, so I am living a healthy life. Your problem is also similar.Great point that state of mind/attitude matters much more in certain areas then time frame (and maybe in much more then we think). Imagine if I could have sat down for 15 or 20 minutes a day, did my writing, and then enjoyed the rest of my day. This seems unrealistic, but certainly I could have employed a strategy that could have made the process less agonizing. Three Important Questions of Mind Management Sometimes I know I'm just looking for a story and it doesn't come, it doesn't come and I have a thing on my wall that says, ‘Trust emergence' which I heard on I think Jonathan Fields podcast years ago. And it's that feeling that eventually, an insight will come and I can't necessarily rush it. I just have to trust the idea that it will happen.