Say you love David Allen… (O.K., say what you want). Long and steep is the road from messy to productive, but gratifications are spread like sweet fruits all along the way. It is not about upgrading; it about growing. Once you get it, Allen’s Getting Things Done system is a very tight tool to use; as he himself states in “Making it all work”, with a delicious lack of false humility, (more…)
Friday, May 28th, 2010
Tags: Areas of focus, Books, Calendar, Capture, David Allen, Filing, Focus, GTD, Intuition, Judgement, Learning, Lists, Low level, Notebooks, Organizing, Personal productivity, Productivity, Projects, Tasks, Thinking, Time Management, Workflow, Writing
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In his classic work “De Bono’s thinking course”, the master of creative thinking Edward de Bono (of the “Six thinking hats” fame) exposes a series of techniques to improve reasoning, as a sort of exhaustive “thought gym”. One of his exercises consists in (more…)
Saturday, December 5th, 2009
Tags: Absurdity, Books, Brainstorming, Capture, Classification, Creative thinking, Edward de Bono, Exercises, Fun, Habits, Humor, Ideas, Inspiration, Invention, Judgement, Labeling, Learning, Mental block, Mind, Motivation, Organizing, Outlining, Personal productivity, Planning, Projects, Serendipity, Tasks, Thinking
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