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Perhaps my point is a bit too philosophical, but please consider the following. The maximum you can work in any given day is 24 hours. If you're like most peop

Perhaps my point is a bit too philosophical, but please consider the following. The maximum you can work in any given day is 24 hours. If you're like most people, half the day goes into all sorts of maintenance activities, such as sleep, food, hygiene, and so on. At best, you get 12 hours a day of effective time. No matter how hard you work, there's going to be ceilings on your individual productivity. There are going to be hard limits to what you personally can do. Thus, focus on improving your capacity to collaborate, to learn from and work with others. It is not a neat answer, but if you can cooperate and coordinate better, you'll get more done. Learn to give/take, honour agreements, communicate, build teams, run meetings, etc. These will do more for how much you can get done than your own hard work. Also, learning high productivity thinking skills is valuable: mathematics, philosophy, reasoning skills, learning from history, etc.

moneywoes 3y ago
Essentially do you mean it’s More efficient to ask to be a teacher? any specifics on these high productivity thinking skills?
- atomicnature 3y ago
  You increase productivity by working with others. You yourself cannot increase productivity by large margin. So peers, the internet, forums, places like this, teachers -- the more you can interact on useful matters, the more productive you will become in general. Thinking skills: You can develop high productivity thinking skills only when you can recognise someone with higher capability (not necessarily a living person; biographies, for example, can supply inspiration). The first step is observation and acceptance. Deep within you must accept - this person can do something better than me. That is the source of motivation -- "I too want to be more skilled at this, like this person". Then you can learn to think more like them, if you're sincere, consistent and determined. A good place to start "thinking about thinking" is Marvin Minsky's book "The society of mind" [1] [1]: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/ http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/

moneywoes 3y ago

Essentially do you mean it’s More efficient to ask to be a teacher? any specifics on these high productivity thinking skills?

atomicnature 3y ago
You increase productivity by working with others. You yourself cannot increase productivity by large margin. So peers, the internet, forums, places like this, teachers -- the more you can interact on useful matters, the more productive you will become in general. Thinking skills: You can develop high productivity thinking skills only when you can recognise someone with higher capability (not necessarily a living person; biographies, for example, can supply inspiration). The first step is observation and acceptance. Deep within you must accept - this person can do something better than me. That is the source of motivation -- "I too want to be more skilled at this, like this person". Then you can learn to think more like them, if you're sincere, consistent and determined. A good place to start "thinking about thinking" is Marvin Minsky's book "The society of mind" [1] [1]: http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/ http://aurellem.org/society-of-mind/