The strength antiplanirovaniya: plan less
Tips Productivity / / December 19, 2019
We are accustomed to the fact that proper planning can deal with things much faster and better than uncertainty. But the author of the blog «Study Hacks» Number Newport believes otherwise.
After he became a professor, he was in a very interesting situation - the number of his ideas to implement in the year in this period of time simply does not fit... physically. And he decided to remedy this situation.
After several failed attempts count came to a simple conclusion that it is sometimes better not to plan anything.
Antiplanirovanie
Drafting standard plan requires you a clear schedule of what exactly are you going to do, and when exactly are you going to do it. You want to - to paint the case in the future.
Antiplanirovanie allows us to discard this part and just plunge into a project to adapt as best as possible in the circumstances. All you have to do in this case - is to keep records of the experience, describe your feelings, thoughts, victories and disappointments for future viewing.
For this count is a special, electronic magazine, which is based on the automatic filtering of messages in Gmail, which are sent to a special address to the label "Log".
theory antiplanirovaniya
The theory underlying the antiplanirovaniya, provides you with a much wider field for productive activities. Your magazine will keep you up to date on how well you cope with the task. This, in turn, gives a very selective pressure that is needed to control himself and time.
Some people worry that antiplanirovanie hamper their productivity. But the reality is, usually, shown opposite results. Flexible self-reflection and result in increased velocity productive work with the results of more valuable output.
But there are some "but". In addition to increasing productivity and product quality at the output antiplanirovaniya there is a negative side - It is very relaxing and people with weak willpower, a certain amount can virtually stop work. Therefore, use of such a method is better for a month or two and then go back to a more familiar, standard planning.
The key point of jumps planning antiplanirovanie and back is to improve the final planning system.
conclusions
I count just started to learn the system, collect information and draw conclusions based on their observations and practices. You can start doing the same thing you are. Try to spend at least a week without a clear plan, keep a logbook and see what happens in the end.
Number Newport discovered that a serious, intense work is deeply cyclical, and is not something that can happen every day of every week.
Surely, your mind will come to some interesting thoughts and ideas on the organization of their working time and life in general.
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