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

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As a result, if we can structure our time to take advantage of these differences we may see exponential results.

He also put perspective on creative cycles and how you need to find your needs per type and the need of finding a structure to build of the chaos of life to ensure you organize your work per mental state.To use the strategy PowerPoint example above, it would be checking the grammar, cleaning up awkward wording, adjusting the layout of images and shapes. Great point that state of mind/attitude matters much more in certain areas then time frame (and maybe in much more then we think).

The mental state required for generating lots of connective insights is different from the state that can evaluate their worth and validate their truth. Enter mind management, a paradigm shift that promises to revolutionize the way we approach productivity and success. The author shows how he developed systems and hacks to increase his productivity while working on creative projects. Because the generating of insights is a seemingly magical thing that doesn't depend on intense focus and scrutiny, we need a different strategy for ensuring we are always generating new creative ideas. Love your prefrontal cortex: Your prefrontal cortex is the “newest” (in terms of evolution) part of your brain.The main insights in this book are how we should think of creative tasks around the kind of mood we have to be in to tackle them, and then the author's classification of these task-moods and his ideas of schedules following a rough task-mood pattern, and scheduling the right tasks for the right moods. The structure of Kadavy's approach to creative work is incredibly flexible, giving you a concrete place to start with your efforts while also leaving room to shape every part of the process to your specific needs. Also, what happens when life throws you for a loop, and then another loop, and then you find out that those two loops were small compared to the next loop life throws you? His preferred Deep Work style is what Cal Newport’s Deep Work by Cal Newport would probably deem monastic. Plus, the book pointed out that I need to pay more attention to my mood and what kind of tasks are best for it (and how to change my mood to prepare for needed tasks).

Some neurology stuff (like short term memory) should have been explained with more scientific precision when they were used like they were in the book. I feel there is ALOT of valuable content in this book but it was less immediately actionable than I would have hoped, since David tells many stories along the way. Meditate: By practicing mindfulness meditation, you carve neural pathways to better process stimuli in your present environment, making you more calm and deliberate. What we learn here is a quite long tale of at the end it’s about breathing in life and whatever it may bring, being kind to others and ourselves and finding our own rhythm to produce what we can be proud of. David tiene una manera de escribir desenfadada, agradable y entretenida, sin embargo creo que el libro sigue mucho el estilo de autores de no ficción que llenan el libro de descripciones y anécdotas personales que a veces aunque aportan mucho al escrito (como el caso de la enfermedad de su madre), otras veces no aportan tanto a la información pero sí a la extensión, este es un punto qué mejorar.What Kadavy offers is a unique approach, catered to a specific kind of work, that he has tried and tested over the years. Any new venture requires all of my mental focus, but then once I have it down, I can shift it to "back burner"--which for me means essentially auto pilot (I'm thinking of editing podcasts and then uploading them for distribution while listening to audiobooks or CMEs, or doing the same with newsletters). The more you can streamline things, the more they become automatic, the less anxiety you feel over the task, and the easier and MORE creative it makes your life.