The Only Productivity Trick You Need

This is all you need for success in anything.

This Lifehack article talks about the only 2 tricks you need for maximum productivity. And what it proposes is something that I believe is akin to all successful endeavours. Essentially what it comes down to is planning and evaluation. Everything we want to achieve requires a plan to get there. And we require constant evaluation to make sure that we iterate our approach in order to reach our goals as efficiently as possible.

After every single time you finish any kind of task, you should be looking back to see what you did well and what didn't go so well. Write this down somewhere and file it. The next time you start any kind of task, go back and look at your library of prior tasks and type out the things you should do and the things you should avoid with this new task. This is necessary and must be detailed because almost everybody will say to themselves: "I'll start and finish earlier this time!" but the thought never lasts and it is also not specific enough.

During the planning phase for each task, prior evaluations and experience must always be consulted. Indeed, this is the only way to improvement.

A Beginning

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When I was really young, I used to think that I was the only conscious and sentient person in the world and that all of reality around me was a show run essentially by robots. I later found out that this was called solipsism, the idea that only I had the ability to think and feel. And of course, it was before I learned about the theory of mind, the idea that other people could have sophisticated mental states just like my own.

For me, that was the beginning of my need to separate myself from everyone else. I always felt that I needed to be different, to feel like I knew a bit more than everyone else because I didn't want to become just another robot. Of course, this brought along with it a lot of narcissism which I'm still recovering from, but nonetheless it is an essential part of who I am.

As we shall see, this is the drive that has constantly allowed me to experiment, evolve, and try new methods of accomplishing tasks. In the coming days, I will talk about how this was and still is a cornerstone of who I am today.