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Another theory on why routine tasks get prioritized over creative is simply the mental load associated with the routine tasks “spills over” into creative idea t
by Ilasky 4y ago
Another theory on why routine tasks get prioritized over creative is simply the mental load associated with the routine tasks “spills over” into creative idea times.
What I mean is that, routine task can be mentally laborious - with little motivation to do them other than they fact they are mandatory or needed. Once the motivation to do this task is used, the motivation to do the creative task is no longer there because it was spent on the routine.
It’s seems related to what we’re trying to build (https://doubleapp.xyz https://doubleapp.xyz ), where we want to provide a way to channel motivation from accountability so it’s not all on you to muster the motivation do everything.
- koheripbal 4y agoThis is a fun idea. I wonder how helpful other people are in practice, or is it just the notion of having someone there that helps people focus? Do you filter people so that they are paired with people doing similar tasks? similar skillsets?
- Ilasky 4y agoIt’s extremely helpful, at least speaking for myself. There’s a technique called “body doubling” which entails doing tasks in the presence of another, it’s what we’re basing the whole idea around. We think it works because the other person there acts as a sort of proxy for motivation (I chat a bit more about it here: https://doubleapp.xyz/blog/body-doubling-proxy https://doubleapp.xyz/blog/body-doubling-proxy ) We do provide the option for people to filter to others that are doing something similar (e.g., creative vs exercise/active, etc.). We plan to make it a more fine grained in the future for sure!
- koheripbal 4y agoIt reminds me of the whole "two in a box" management practice, where putting two workers in a cube (who got along) allowed them to be more efficient together. It was a corporate fad in... I want to say maybe 2005?