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productivity
The more you concentrate your time, energy, capital on one thing, it becomes nonlinear how well that thing does. When you're an effective person, you have movie projects, book projects, speaking engagements, businesses, ownership in sports teams, peo
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So but I knew I needed to take control of my time. So I took these time management courses and they, you know, gave a little book in those days and your a, b, and c priorities. And I did it for about two weeks and then after a while I was like, there
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heavy user of the tool, lighter use of the tool? Were the you were the users more productive in their job? Were the employees more productive in their job? And then measure on top of that amount of time those segments of workers were actually working
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...work and personal life back and forth, just like how Julie was saying. So there's been two big tips that have worked really well for me that I've had to figure out over the last few years. The first one, again, going back to nothing is more valuable
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now. How do you think about actually you'll consistently underestimate yourself? I think some of it comes from fear. People don't like failing at things. It's something that holds people back on really just their entire life trajectory is this fear o
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And then there's this point about people delegate, and then they realize, like, a leader delegates, hires all these execs, and then, like, this is not what I wanted? Why have I done this? And things and you think it's gonna speed up, but it slows dow
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...productivity between the heavy users and the lighter users?
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I think a lot about, like, high performance and what it actually means to me, and it changes over time. What does high performance mean to you, Sam? I think a plausible definition might be the ability to deliver on what objectives that you set for yo
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even three hours, four hours of concentrated, uninterrupted time every day would move to goals they truly care about way down the field. I think kids do make you more productive in that way for people who need it, especially people like me. They crea
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05:36. That's just if I didn't accomplish what I wanted to do today, if I get to that time, it's done. I'm over. I have to try again tomorrow. Mhmm. Whereas before having a family and before having kids, I could just, like, not do it and just make it
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thought. You know? I I feel that there's two answers to to two questions, actually. The the first one is you have people saying, well, look, Saleem, I work such crazy hours. I have no time to drop in. First that's the first question to ask. The secon
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because like you said she's experienced that. So I think it's a very good point you made Chris and it really comes down to education to say at some point, if a PM goes, oh, Chris is going to do the most amazing work if I give him this two hour block
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So it's a practice, and I like to give myself a little leeway. I may not balance every day or balance even a week. This month, maybe I'm traveling for the first two weeks, but I'm gonna take off a few days the last two weeks. I try to look at the lon
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along with Jackie in person every morning at 9AM. The new people at the company go to executive training at the end of the day at 6PM. They report back and they do another fifteen minutes of executive training at the end of the day. Maybe unpack how
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But, yeah, I think so much of it is about self discipline, isn't it? About actually having that executive function at the start of the day or whenever it is to say, these are the things I'm going to be doing, and these are other important things. And
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