There’s a personality component to the ability to ignore what you can’t control. If you’re ambitious and give a shit, enterprise environments can make that incredibly hard because so much outside your control still affects the outcome. Part of productivity might be choosing an environment where you don’t have to spend so much energy filtering yourself.
🤣 You're not wrong. My new favorite sentence is: I'm not going to do that.
Philosophically, it's the productivity kin to Adlerian psychology. 👏 Engaging in the brutal separation of tasks and ruthlessly focusing only on what are your tasks is deeply freeing. Maybe Epictetus was reincarnated as the man who rejected Freudian psychology?
I will note [ironically] my todo list app has a "Won't Do" feature which is almost redundant, in my opinion, because it also has a delete feature … but I guess some productivity hacker thought it would be cool to keep track of the shit they chose not to do? 🤪
In a work environment a good manager would shelter their employees so that a lot of these items would never be an issue. Unfortunately good managers are hard to find.
One nit: there is only one GTD and it actually isn't designed around the idea that everything is important. Far from it. The point is to get things where they need to be and out of your head. "need to be" could be somewhere in your system. it could also mean put in the trash or delegate to someone else. The philosophy behind it actually works quite well with what you've described here.
There’s a personality component to the ability to ignore what you can’t control. If you’re ambitious and give a shit, enterprise environments can make that incredibly hard because so much outside your control still affects the outcome. Part of productivity might be choosing an environment where you don’t have to spend so much energy filtering yourself.
🤣 You're not wrong. My new favorite sentence is: I'm not going to do that.
Philosophically, it's the productivity kin to Adlerian psychology. 👏 Engaging in the brutal separation of tasks and ruthlessly focusing only on what are your tasks is deeply freeing. Maybe Epictetus was reincarnated as the man who rejected Freudian psychology?
I will note [ironically] my todo list app has a "Won't Do" feature which is almost redundant, in my opinion, because it also has a delete feature … but I guess some productivity hacker thought it would be cool to keep track of the shit they chose not to do? 🤪
In a work environment a good manager would shelter their employees so that a lot of these items would never be an issue. Unfortunately good managers are hard to find.
One nit: there is only one GTD and it actually isn't designed around the idea that everything is important. Far from it. The point is to get things where they need to be and out of your head. "need to be" could be somewhere in your system. it could also mean put in the trash or delegate to someone else. The philosophy behind it actually works quite well with what you've described here.