How to Become Dramatically More Productive

what skill do I think everyone should Master to become more productive I would say I'll cheat here I'm going to give

two but one is very concrete morning meditation for more 10 to 20 minutes you can do this any number of ways I ended up only adhering to the habit of

meditation after quitting many many times over the years following a transcendental meditation Course and there are a lot of issues I have with Transcendental Meditation at least how it's set up the costs involved

it's cheaper than it was then and so on but it is very secular once you get past the first day or so and you have the social pressure or accountability of working with an instructor on a daily

basis for 4 days and so if you're going to meet with them and they want to talk about the two sessions that you did when you weren't together you are going to feel like an ass if you don't have

something to report and this is a very beneficial typee of pressure and that is what got me initially to stick to the Daily practice long enough to make it a

continual habit there are other tools you could use for instance like the app headspace uh which I have used which many other people have used Millions at this point and they have a 10 in 10 I

think it is which is 10 minutes a day for 10 days and you listen to guided meditation which quite frankly is easier than going directly to to something like

TM which is Mantra based or any type of I think awareness meditation without the so-called let's call it a distraction or

tool of a guided voice in recorded audio it's actually a very very helpful training set of training wheels in the very beginning stages or you can continue to use it I know someone for

instance uh and I'm going to butcher her last name because I always do and I'm going to embarrass myself here again Maria poova or po damn it Maria I'm sorry uh it's

performance anxiety with your name I always do this who runs brain pickings which started off as an email to I think five of her friends and ended up now it has 7 million plus readers per month uh

she listens to the same guided meditation from Tara Brock every morning and has for years and I think it's smiling meditation or something along those lines uh so it doesn't have to be

a just in the beginning thing so the meditation I think if I look at for instance all the world class performers that I've interviewed 80 plus per have some type of mindfulness or meditative

practice whether that is sitting down palms and lap and meditating or running for 10 20 30 miles and listening

to the same song these are all forms of mindfulness training and it's a prerequisite foundational skill I think for operating at a very very high level

and there Cly certainly people who haven't done that deliberately and have achieved great success but I would encourage everyone who's

listening to realize that being successful objectively compared to other people and feeling successful are two very different things and ideally you

want to have both of those and it's not being e egotistical or egocentric I think it's being human um this type of mindfulness practice helps with not just

the achievement component but the appreciation component and I think that you are chasing after a Fool's errand if you're just going after one or the other

you don't have to it can be both end uh the second foundational skill and I'll try to keep this short is getting better at asking questions there are piss poor

questions there are okay questions there are good questions and they're great questions and I find that levels of success in almost any industry or area

correlate to a person asking great questions in some cases they seem absurd in fact the Hallmark in a way of great questions is that sound completely ridiculous so someone might ask like

Peter teal why can't you achieve your 10e goals in the next six months is a thought exercise that's a that's that's a good question to answer for yourself

uh and these types of questions come up surprisingly often uh with with very very impressive folks whether it's in business military entertainment or

otherwise and the way you can get better at questions is by studying interviews in part so I studied Larry King I studied Charlie Rose I studied Terry

Gross I studied D D D D go down the list uh I studied Tony Robbins who does in-person one-on-one interventions at his events in front of 10,000 5,000

people and he's just genius with how he uses questions to like pattern inter interupt and grabb someone's attention and divert them in a more produ productive Direction now why is that

relevant it's relevant because thinking is the process of asking questions you're asking yourself questions and then you're answering them in your own head so if you get better at asking other people questions you get

better at asking yourself questions which means you are a you're improving your thought performance and level of thinking so those would be the prerequisite skills

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