BEING LESS STUPID #13 - Find Your Flow
My Information Capture Workflows and Tools | Obvious to you. Amazing to others | Three Theories for Why You Have No Time | How to decide what to work on next
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A few weeks back, my brother asked me to help him design a small application for one of his clients. The requirement of the app was to conduct a randomized quiz for the audience of an event. If the user answers 3 out of 5 questions correctly, they will get a gift from the event organizers.
It took some time for me to get started, but I was in flow once I got into it. I loved every minute of working on this small project. It reminded me of days when I used to actively code and enjoy doing it. I realized what I have been missing since I got promoted at work as a manager and stopped coding. As soon as I finished this small project, I decided to take up coding again and make things outside of work.
I have been procrastinating on an app I want to design for more than a year now. I committed to working on it from past Monday. I made good progress this week on brainstorming ideas for the first module. I have also set up the base application in angular and tailwind.
Oftentimes, we have to remind ourselves of what we enjoy doing the most. Working on things that you really enjoy doing gets you into a flow state. Once you get into the flow state a few times, chances are, you will want to get into that state very often. What is that you enjoy doing most but have been procrastinating for a long time? Go do it. Find your flow.
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📄 Interesting Reads
1. Obvious to you. Amazing to others
Many a time I held myself back thinking what I am about to share is obvious and what is the point in sharing? That is true only until someone tells you that the idea you shared is amazing. What you find to be obvious may be amazing to others.
2. Three Theories for Why You Have No Time
Even if we possess a magical new set of technologies that could automate or expedite every single part of our job, would just still work the exact same amount of time as before. Because our working hours and income are shaped by higher powers, like bosses, federal laws, and societal expectations. There are three simple reasons for this
Better technology means higher expectations—and higher expectations create more work.
A lot of modern overwork is class and status maintenance—for this generation and the next.
Technology only frees people from work if the boss—or the government, or the economic system—allows it.
3. How to decide what to work on next
Besides deciding on a rational level what you should work on next, you need to consider the Environment, Energy, and Time when you are deciding between projects and tasks. When you apply these three factors to the PARI mind framing technique you get a better idea of what to work on.
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