11 life hacking of famous people who will save your time
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
We all want to make their lives easier and more efficient. Therefore, we listen with interest and look for people who have reached certain peaks in their business. In this article you will find the secrets of successful entrepreneurs, top writers and artists to help them cope with things faster, make better decisions and be productive.
Warren Ellis
The famous British comic book writer. Multiple winner of the specialized awards Eagle Award for the best script and the idea of comics.
The best idea that has saved me a lot of time, was to create a special "public" email address. Thus the number of emails in my primary mailbox, which I use for personal and business correspondence, was reduced from over 200 to 50 per day.
Lowell Heddings
Founder, CEO, chief editor, writer, programmer, system administrator How-To Geek website.
The most important secret, which saves me a lot of time and effort, is to hire really the best performers. Make sure that these people can be trusted, that they are paid enough, they love their job and cope with any task efficiently and on time.
Patrick Norton
Patrick Norton is an author and the main driving force TekThing projects, TWiCH, Possibly Unsafe. He also received great popularity thanks to performances at Tekzilla. Author of articles for Tested.com.
Single-tasking. Many of my tasks, such as product testing or negotiations with advertisers, it is can not be automated. Therefore, we must find out what is most important, prioritize and execute one task after another, until they run out.
Nathan Blecharzik
Nathan Blecharzik is one of three founders of Airbnb. He also holds the position of technical director of the company and is responsible for resolving complex technical issues.
I try to schedule tasks in the reverse direction, ie from the result to the initial stage. In addition, I try to book a morning to the most important cases. I believe that it is the morning is the most productive time, later to focus much more difficult. Therefore, all meetings, consultations and negotiations, I try to spend the afternoon.
Ed Zitron
Ed Zitron - founder and CEO of the PR-agency EZPR. He also wrote the book This Is How You Pitch: How To Kick Ass In Your First Years of PR.
My main life hacking is that I had studied their strengths and weaknesses. I work well with the media and general talk. At the same time, I do not much like tasks that require organization and perseverance. The main thing - to understand what is worse of all, to find people or programs that help to cope with this.
Scott Olechowski
Scott Olechowski has served as chief producer corporation Plex Inc. At the time, he was directly involved in its creation.
Isolation of well-defined end time for solving the problem. This idea came to me during one of air travel. I had to perform quite a lot of work and at the same time till complete discharge of my laptop. Now I often use this method, especially for tasks that have long been put off. If I know that I certainly need to keep within X minutes, then I'll do it and I will not smear unpleasant process for the whole day.
Slava Rubin
Slava Rubin is one of the Indiegogo platform creators. He currently works as Director General of the company.
I try to do some things super-fast. I quickly make out e-mails, talking quickly and make quick decisions whenever possible. Well, you know, like in the game when you need to pass the level before the timer is ticking, do not have time - burnt. I kept this up for new games and new rules. For example, today I'm going to watch football and parse email only during commercial breaks. And when I'm doing on the treadmill, then I run at the same pace as the players on the screen.
Angelo Sotira
Angelo Sotira became known as the co-founder of Deviantart site. Currently, he is also the CEO of this company.
I try first of all to focus on the most difficult or the most creative tasks. I was lucky that I have a great team, which helps to cope with the tasks that have a lower priority for me.
Patrick Allan
Patrick Allan for a long time contributor to Lifehacker.com. He also leads Let's Roll podcast, which is dedicated to all kinds of technology pieces.
You just need to start doing what you should do. Sovrem yourself that you will do this only a few minutes. Start - this is the most difficult part of any process, but once I started, it can be assumed that the job is done. If you want to save your time, just get yourself together, bite the bullet and start. Well, how in the advertising slogan Nike: «Just do it."
Jimmy Soni
Jimmy Soni is the bestselling author of Rome's Last Citizen: The Life and Legacy of Cato. He currently holds the post of executive editor of Huffington Post.
There are some good research on the topic of "fatigue of choice." They tell us that our willpower is a limited resource, and if we are in during the day constantly have something to choose, it gradually dries out. If you feel that the end of the day can not choose a dish for dinner or a movie to watch, then this is it. I try to economize on this resource, and to automate the adoption of simple, insignificant decisions. So I then easier to choose the really important things.
Steven Dabner
Steven Dabner is co-author of one of the most important books of the last decade - "Freakonomics." He is a frequent speaker at various conferences, and participates in television and radio broadcasts.
I delegate everything that is possible (I have a full-time assistant who has evolved from luxury to necessity). I get up early enough, when there are no distractions, and the first few hours was a fairly detailed plan of the work. I try to avoid the things that I do not like. If you spend day after day, solving problems that oppress you, you will inevitably become more and more unhappy and miserable.
And what secrets of productivity and life hacking, tested on personal experience, can you share?