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> This alienates the productivity seeker, because not many people who are not productive currently can imagine becoming innately productive people. So in turn t
by mnsc 7y ago
> This alienates the productivity seeker, because not many people who are not productive currently can imagine becoming innately productive people. So in turn they seek help from people who are not "innately productive", and instead have recently developed some kind of conscious system to deal with productivity. Which is a fragile approach.
But isn't it the only approach if you want to find that custom tuned productivity system that is right for yourself? Trial and error, listening to young people who might not have "gotten it" but might have discovered one missing nugget that will get you over your next personal threshold? Isn't a more fragile approach to look at a persons age and say "I'm older than x so I have nothing to learn from this young one with their silly conscious system".
- TeMPOraL 7y agoThe issue is novelty effect. People inexperienced in improving their own productivity will try an intervention, see great improvements in the following days, and decide to blog about it. But the improvements usually come not from the intervention itself, but from the novelty aspect - so they tend to disappear within a week. After suffering from that many, many times you finally learn the pattern and stop blogging about random things you're trying. That said, trial and error is definitely the way to go, and I like to read about systems people develop from themselves - sometimes I discover a weird trick that sticks with me for longer.