The Productivity Show

The Most Overrated Productivity Hacks and More (TPS499)

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Is the Pomodoro Technique overrated? How about the Eisenhower matrix? Which productivity technique does Brooks and Thanh disagree about?

In this episode of the podcast, we discuss overrated productivity techniques, Type-A relaxation, and the results of a country-wide 4-Day Workweek experiment that we shared in a previous episode.

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  • Top 3 Productivity Resources [2:50]
  • Is Type-A relaxation a problem? [5:06]
  • Which productivity techniques are completely overrated? [16:19]
  • Whatever happened with that 4-Day Workweek study? [44:21]
    • Links:
    • Shopify
    • 1Password
    • 25X Productivity Coaching
    • The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
    • Simple Scan | Agile Tortoise
    • Tweet by @jonnym1ller
    • The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation – Huberman Lab
    • Productivity hacks that don’t work or are overrated : r/productivity
    • Four-day workweek: Firms in UK make the move permanent after world’s biggest trial
    • Productivity Academy
    • The Productivity Show on Youtube
    • The Productivity Show Youtube Clips
    • Become a member of TPS+
    • Take the Productivity Quiz

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