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Modern Mentor

302 GID Mastering the Surprising Power of Randomness

Modern Mentor

Macmillan Holdings, LLC

Careers, Business, Management

4.3720 Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2014

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Once you have all your tasks in one place, going through them is as much an art as a science. But science tells us the universe is random. Perhaps tasks are, too...

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0:00.0

This is Steva Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

0:08.4

Do you have tasks? I have tasks. Lots of them. And I never know which one to do first. Oh, if only

0:14.9

there were a natural law that would tell me. Nature. Nature is very productive. Nature made the entire world, and that's pretty productive.

0:23.4

We use microscopes to unravel nature's secrets. If you use a powerful enough microscope,

0:28.2

you discover nature's big secret. Quantum mechanics. Reality is random, probably. If reality is random,

0:35.8

then surely productivity must be random too.

0:40.9

Albert Einstein said, God does not play dice with the universe, but Albert had never met my friend

0:46.9

Caroline. Caroline is a productivity powerhouse. Her business makes more money in a week than most

0:53.6

people make in a week.

0:55.2

And she only has to work about 10 hours.

0:57.8

She's always calling me up midday to go for walks or to build replicas of the Eiffel Tower

1:01.9

out of toothpicks.

1:03.2

I asked her,

1:04.6

Caroline, how do you have so much free time?

1:07.1

She told me about her productivity system.

1:09.4

Even though I'm fairly sure she's not Mother Nature, her system is, well, pretty random.

1:16.0

Put all your to-dos in one place.

1:18.8

First, you need a single master's system for managing your tasks, and there's a link in this episode's transcript to my episode about that very topic.

1:26.8

Caroline uses her Gmail inbox.

1:29.4

You can use a paper list or an electronic list. You will be scanning your to-do's 25 at a time,

1:34.7

however, so go into settings and set the number of items displayed per page to 25. If you use a paper

1:40.9

list, you'll have to count out your list into blocks of 25 and treat every

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