Productive people perceive choices where others see just choresĮg, Marine Corps changed basic training to force recruits to make lots more choices – you figure out where the cleaning supplies are, you determine whether to throw something out or keep itĮg, when going through your emails, look for ways to exhibit agency, make a decision, turn chores into choicesĮg, grading papers is a boring task, before doing it, one professor goes through his mental mantra to internalize that grading papers > helps university > funds his research > helps to cure cancerīrain is a tool we can choose to change and manipulateĬarol Dweck – internal locus of control, growth mindset – instead of complimenting a kid on how smart they are, compliment how hard they worked (effort is a choice, being smart isn’t) Productive people have checkin systems – eg, Sunday afternoon, review what happened last week, plan for next week “Disfluency” – act of thinking, encodes more deeply

Laptop 3x more info from lecture, copy verbatimīut longhand notes score much better on recall test later Jordan also does verbalization – explaining his day, his problems – with podcast guests, business partners, romantic partner Jerry Robbins (sp?) wrote nightly letters to friends – a habit to think about what happened to him that dayĬharles’s own: every evening he tells his wife everything that happened that day, describes those things in detail to her, pushes him to think more deeply Power of Contemplative routines – habits to give us space to think about right thingsĮg, on way to work, think about upcoming day How to think is more important than What to think

Guest Charles Duhigg – business journalist, author of Power of Habit, Smarter Faster Better

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