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Are you trying to juggle too many things? 😫

2023-12-22 · Short · Ali · recording, 0:41 · watch on YouTube

Topic: Productivity and time · mode: Explanation and tutorial · tags: Feel-Good Productivity thesis, Lesson from a book

In an extract from his book Feel-Good Productivity, Ali names overcommitment as the first path to overexertion: juggling many projects at once makes everything more stressful, and sustainable productivity means recognising the limits on our time.

What is said

The parts of the video and what is said in each (★ — how much it matters to the video).

00:00:00 — Overcommitment, the first way to overexertion

  • ★★★ Ali calls overcommitment the first way we set ourselves on the path to overexertion: we say yes to things in the present that in the long term grind us down. — 00:00:00 · burnout
  • ★★ With a large degree of choice in how to spend your time, Ali says, it is harder to commit to one thing in a given time slot, as the brain keeps thinking you could be working on something else. — 00:00:00
  • ★★ Ali says that juggling a house renovation, a huge work project, learning Japanese, starting a blog and helping with your kid's football team at once makes everything feel a lot more stressful. — 00:00:00

  • ★★★ Ali calls the belief that we can do everything a myth: sustainable productivity means recognising the limits on our time, which everybody has. — 00:00:29 · feel-good productivity (concept)

    “Sustainable productivity means recognizing the limitations on our time.”

Threads in this video

  • refine · How do you avoid burnout? — Ali calls overcommitment the first way we set ourselves on the path to overexertion: we say yes to things in the present that in the long term grind us down. (00:00:00)

Mentioned

Central: burnout

Also: feel-good productivity (concept)

Only in the description or credits: Feel-Good Productivity (book)

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