Why To-do Lists Destroy Productivity
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- Опубліковано 29 сер 2024
- We often have this false belief that our to-do lists help us to be more productive. If you’re not careful though, it can destroy your productivity by encouraging you to do the meaningless, low effort tasks.
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I am a bit of shocked when I am waching this video because what mentioned in it is what I have suffered.I even doubt myself.Luckily I have met this vedeo and know that is just the way I make a to-do-list is wrong.Now I feel good to use 8+2 to do more meaningful items.
Thank you. And I am happy to hear you found this video helpful.
Not the video I wanted to watch, but the one I needed. Have a sub.
Thank you 🙏
Solid video as always! My only comment on this is I really like this approach for single contributors or for people that do not manage others. However, if you manage others sometimes you need a bunch of "waiting for/delegated" type of follow-ups to make sure the work is getting done so the goals stay on track.
Hi Kris, that's true. If you're managing people and ensuring they are doing the right work and meeting their milestones, if you consider that to be important then that's fine. We will all identify different things as being important.
Thank you siiir ❤
You're welcome.
Carl, I don’t mean to quarrel with your program. I’m a retired lawyer, age 79. Never in my scholastic and collegiate, professional education and career have I used “to do lists..” In my juniors year of high school , I began to rely on my memory to record my homework assignments, because I knew that there was a serious consequence of forgetting on assignment. If I ever forgot one, I don’t recall now, but I dob’t recall any through decades of schooling and professional work. (I know most will say to themselves “not so” and the like, but its indeed. If the consequences of forgetting are indeed severe, one will surely recall, and train the memory in the process. “Doing is honest, futzing with lists is and other form of procrastination, and excusing oneself. To be honest everyone knows what they must do. Again, I do not dispute. Your program, and wish you s the very best of success.
I agree with you 100% - If something is important to you, you do not need to write it done or create a project in a to-do list. You will remember exactly what to do next.
Agree about the workflow, that is the key
Thank you, Pierre. :-)
What do you think about people who throw to do list for using a calendar ?
I use a "to-do list" but its more of a "reminder" list. Thought: How about trying an "I did" list?
Carl useful and insightful video as always. Thank you!
Just one question: how do you manage multiple projects with different deadlines?
If I run just one project than this system would be fine, but how about different projects with different tasks/goals/paths with consequential actions?
For example: if I was asked for a conference I’d have to create the slides (and they have many subtasks, such as structuring the outline, searching for images, etc...), then send them to my collaborators, etc...
And this is just one project: I’m running 5 projects for different no-profits, each project has about 2-3 schools, etc...
How do I manage such complexity?
I’m not provocative: I’m genuine and willing to learn.
Hmmm I always have multiple projects running-I think we all do-yet, I have leant to focus on what is important right now. What will take me closer to completing my projects today. I also never over complicate things. If I have a workshop in Berlin in March, I know there are really three things I need to make sure happens. Create the presentation file and handout materials - book flights and book hotel. Everything else is inconsequential as long as those three things happen. So, those would be the three tasks I would have in my to-do list.
Searching for images, structuring etc, I do not need to write that down. It’s obvious.
Have you looked at Ayoa? Totally different take (and made about 10 mins from me in Cardiff)
No, I haven't :)
You take billionaires as example . but those people have huge staff to manage projects for them and they just have to manage things at very high level, so indeed
a simple notebook is enough.
A billionaire don't work on projects, they give direction and fix strategy then people execute for them.
i would be interested to know how they manage their projects 30 years ago when they were not billionnaires.
For me they can have a simple notebook now that they are billionaire but it is not the simple notebook which made them millionaire.
I may be wrong because I don't know them personally :-)
The research I did discovered Sir Richard Branson has been using a simple notebook since he was 17 years old. He does his own email every morning at 6AM and make the same number of calls he has always done each day. The way he works hasn't changed even if the work he does today has. Warren Buffett, has always carried a little pocket diary and still does today. He's only ever sent one email in his life and still does his own research and writing as he has always done so.
Tony Robbins and Robbin Sharma still create their own content. They disappear to nice places - villas and private islands to do it, but they still spend days and weeks creating their own content. Marketing people, printers and designers may turn that content into the finished products, but then I do the same thing. I get designers and printers to produce my finished work and I'm no where near a billionaire. The biggest difference there is I hire people when I need them, Tony Robbins and Robin Sharma employ their team full-time.
@@Carl_Pullein "He's only ever sent one email in his life" Really. How is it possible today :-)
I’m curious if those successful people you mentioned never had to do list or they stopped using to do list after they became successful and hired assistants to handle their tasks.
As far as my research can tell, they’ve never used to-do lists. Richard Branson has always used a note book for sketching out his ideas and Warren Buffett still has no assistants
why not just do nothing
I have responsibilities to other people.
I hate when you're right.
Hahaha Sorry ;-o
So basically don't use a to-do list, but instead make a list of things to do. This is insightful 🙄
Lol 😂..indeed
This video doesn't show that to-do lists are bad for productivity. It only refers to-do lists made with unrealistic expectations.