گلچین مرا در تاریکی ببوس: طعمی از عاشقانه تاریک

The shift didn't happen overnight. Throughout the course of writing my first book, I still got stuck all the time. But it became abundantly clear that I had picked the low-hanging fruit in managing my time. There were instead opportunities to be more productive, with less pain, in managing my mind. After all, why was it that I was banging my head against the wall twelve hours a day? Why was it that, seemingly out of nowhere, I would suddenly start making progress? Sometimes, I would do an entire day's writing in only fifteen minutes. The only problem was, I had to sit at my keyboard all day to find that fifteen-minute window in which writing would suddenly come easily. If only I could sit down, do that fifteen minutes of writing, and get on with the rest of my day!, I thought. I'm sure you've experienced this before. You were working hard on something, but not making progress. Maybe you were writing a book, maybe you were learning a language, or maybe you were simply making a tough life decision. You kept pushing, but it felt as if you were getting nowhere. You abandoned the project multiple times. But then, as you were on the edge of burning out, everything clicked. You had a fruitful writing session, you suddenly understood your new language, or that decision that once seemed impossible now seemed easy. Writing my first book was a creativity pressure cooker. That's what it took for me to realize that I needed to manage my mind, instead of my time. But as I reflected on the experience, I saw that this also applied to other aspects of my life and work. In my career as a designer, I had often spent weeks thrashing about, sure I would never reach a solution -only to have that solution appear out of nowhere. As an entrepreneur, I had struggled to choose a direction, only to have the best choice become clear after "sleeping on it." As a marketer, I had agonized over how best to expend limited resources, only to later feel confident about my cohesive plan. I could see parallels in learning to dance Salsa, play guitar, or speak Spanish -even in making big life decisions. Most people's idea of productivity is to be able to produce a lot of something. To do a lot. Follow a series of steps, and you're done. Do it over and over again. But, more and more, if it can be completed in a series of steps, there's no point in doing it. AI and automation are poised to eliminate forty to fifty percent of jobs within the next decade or two. It's the jobs in which people follow a series of steps that are the most at-risk. AI expert Kai-Fu Lee says it's the "optimization-based" jobs that will be taken over first. Jobs such as loan underwriters, customer service representatives, even radiologists. Jobs that involve what Lee calls "narrow tasks," such as finding the ideal rate for an insurance premium, maximizing a tax refund, or diagnosing an illness. Tasks involving optimizing data will be the first to go. Which jobs are safe from the reach of AI? According to Lee, it's the jobs that require creativity. When many people think of "creativity," they think of watercolor paintings or macramé. But creativity expands way beyond those examples. Scientists who study creativity define it as coming up with something both novel and useful. According to Lee, if you have to think across different subjects, if you work in an "unstructured environment," or if the outcomes of your work are hard to measure, the work you do will be relevant far into the future. These days, the mental work that matters isn't about following a series of steps. It's about finding your way to a novel and useful solution. Also by David Kadavy Bonus Material 1 Mind Management, Not Time Management Welcome to the Creative Age The End of Time Management Time Worship When You Save Time, Keep it The Two False Assumptions of Time Management Beyond Time Management Why I Moved to Another Continent From a Time Management World to a Mind Management World 2 Creative Sweet Spot Divergent/Convergent A Microcosm of Creativity The Sudden Nature of Insight Illuminating the Not-So-Obvious Not All Hours Are Equal Fire the CEO (of Your Brain) Create the Conditions for Collision The First-Hour Rule The Gift of Groggy Flipping the Temporal Switch Why Are There Eight Days in a Week? Creativity is a Maze, Not a Jogging Path The High Interest Rate of Borrowed Time Making Up Time Quadrupling My Creative Output 3 The Four Stages of Creativity Ideas Never Come to a Wearied Brain From the Inside Out Creativity is Short-Term Memory Management Michelangelo Was No God The Four Stages of Yesterday How Incubation Works Respect the Four Stages 4 The Seven Mental States of Creative Work The Seven Mental States Flavors of Deep Work Fuzzy Borders Stay in State Tools for Thought: The Slippy & The Grippy Make The Room Work for You Your Own Personal Placebo 5 Creative Cycles Coasting With Cycles Quit Your Daily Routine. Start Your Weekly Routine. What I Learned About Productivity While Working on Google Calendar Mental States Throughout the Week The Powerful Rule Prefrontal Monday Prioritize Prioritization With the Weekly Review Employ Your Passive Genius When There’s Only “Now,” You Won’t Procrastinate Week of Want Cycles in Cultural Cues 6 Creative Systems More Than One Cupcake Minimum Creative Dose Cycles in Systems SOP: Sloppy Operating Procedure The Powerful Power of Repetition Front Burner/Back Burner Creative Constraints Fly High with Pilots Why Am I Changing My Clothes in a Filthy Laundromat Bathroom? 7 Creating in Chaos How to Keep Going When Your Life is a Dumpster Fire Organize by Mental State Do What You Can With What You Have Creative Opportunities The Creative Cascade Task Triggers Creative Simmer Nothing Happens for a Reason, but it Does Happen Epilogue Could you please click on a star rating? Acknowledgements Notes About The Author