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David Kadavy is a best-selling author whose books help artists be productive. He was design advisor for behavioural scientist Dan Ariely’s productivity app, where David’s mind management principles were applied to features now used by millions – in Google Calendar. His latest book: book Mind Management, Not Time Management, helps creators be productive when creativity matters.
Show Notes:
Eight Days a Week: each day is an event - which is actually kind of a refreshing idea... that today counts.
Creative work is random, you kind of don't know when you're going to have a great idea or a great insight, you can't force it.
I was not a writer, I did not consider myself a writer, I did not enjoy writing. When I was a kid, I was a designer.
I might have these 15 minute bursts, where suddenly, I would write an entire chapter...
On writing his first book: Sometimes it was easy. Most the time it was hard.
David set out to understand the subtle differences for when he was creative so he could make the connection between the actions he was taking and the output that he was making.
I started to dig into the neuroscience of creativity. What does it mean to have a creative insight? What are the conditions that are ideal for that?
This time management paradigm that we've all been working on for the last 120 years or so, does not work at all, for creative work from a certain point - it becomes detrimental to creative work and creative thinking.
I'm an advocate of having a repeatable project: like a podcast because if it's a repetitive process, then you can start to fine tune your approach to it. And you can start to create constraints.
Create constraints where you can be creative within them.
You start to get systems going, where you can use your creative energy a lot more efficiently.
Break projects down into tasks that are small enough that I tend to not procrastinate on them. Then space them out, to take advantage of incubation.
How to be productive when being creative matters? Not through time management!
We're a time worship culture and this is my proposal to humanity - let's switch to more of a mind management world
Ask yourself: what's the better time to do this based upon your energy levels, what's the better time to do this based upon the stage we're at in the process?
Use your passive genius: take advantage of incubation
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By Debbie JenkinsDavid Kadavy is a best-selling author whose books help artists be productive. He was design advisor for behavioural scientist Dan Ariely’s productivity app, where David’s mind management principles were applied to features now used by millions – in Google Calendar. His latest book: book Mind Management, Not Time Management, helps creators be productive when creativity matters.
Show Notes:
Eight Days a Week: each day is an event - which is actually kind of a refreshing idea... that today counts.
Creative work is random, you kind of don't know when you're going to have a great idea or a great insight, you can't force it.
I was not a writer, I did not consider myself a writer, I did not enjoy writing. When I was a kid, I was a designer.
I might have these 15 minute bursts, where suddenly, I would write an entire chapter...
On writing his first book: Sometimes it was easy. Most the time it was hard.
David set out to understand the subtle differences for when he was creative so he could make the connection between the actions he was taking and the output that he was making.
I started to dig into the neuroscience of creativity. What does it mean to have a creative insight? What are the conditions that are ideal for that?
This time management paradigm that we've all been working on for the last 120 years or so, does not work at all, for creative work from a certain point - it becomes detrimental to creative work and creative thinking.
I'm an advocate of having a repeatable project: like a podcast because if it's a repetitive process, then you can start to fine tune your approach to it. And you can start to create constraints.
Create constraints where you can be creative within them.
You start to get systems going, where you can use your creative energy a lot more efficiently.
Break projects down into tasks that are small enough that I tend to not procrastinate on them. Then space them out, to take advantage of incubation.
How to be productive when being creative matters? Not through time management!
We're a time worship culture and this is my proposal to humanity - let's switch to more of a mind management world
Ask yourself: what's the better time to do this based upon your energy levels, what's the better time to do this based upon the stage we're at in the process?
Use your passive genius: take advantage of incubation