Gil’s personal book notes.

Cause you know… I forget shit.

Book in One Sentence

Work on a system that enables you to focus your energy on creative work rather than retaining information.

Top 3 Learnings

  1. Shifting your mind from thinking about things when we can’t do anything about them
  2. Unload everything. Brain is for having ideas. Not for holding them.
  3. Weekly planning is one of the most effective thing you can do. Reviewing all your active projects and figuring out the next action for each of them.

Notes

Capture – Inbox

  • Unload the brain
  • Quick Note
  • Determine the next Action step
  • Brain is used for creative thought, not keeping things
  • Your brain has memory like Ram. It can only keep so much at a time.

Productive State → in control, not stressed out, time disappeared. get back to mind like water.

don’t keep things in your brain.

Clarify

ask: is it actionable. yes or no.

if yes, less than 2 min? if yes, do it. add it to your inbox.

discard or keep it for reference.

Think about work before you do it

What does done look like – desired outcome

define what’s the next action step

it’s a waste of time thinking about things when you can’t act

remind me when you when to do things when you can take action

it’s a waste of time to think about things when you can’t take action. – open loops

inutive choices between muy options instead of thinking about what my options are. i don’t want to waste time thinking about things more than once.

Organize

1-2-3 Capture Trays – project, time, context.

  • Every open loop must be in your capturing bucket and out of your head.
  • you must have as little capturing buckets as you can get by with
  • must empty them regularly

Do it deligate it or defer.

once you decided on a next action, you have three options

What is the next action.

Someday maybe list

Review

Weekly Review

Monthly – short term goals

Engage

4 models to know what to do

  • context
  • time available
  • energy available
  • priority
  • first are the constraints. and hierarchal value

Why determines success

Tricks for the not so smart part of ourselves

put it by the door.

## Context

Context time and energy

energy - close some of your loops - close easy loops

priority

you'll have three types of work

- predefined work
- work as it comes
- defining work that came in clarifying work

## trigger

applying it on the front end

and triggering it when it comes

releaving cognative load of implentation conciousness of commited items that have been commited to but not yet completed. uncompleted tasks takes up foucs on your mind. what's needed is a trusted plan. as long as its parked in a place that we trust.

Goal projects outcomes ^

Completion is not required to releave such burrden on the psyche. what is needed is a trusted plan to ensure forward engagement will happen. merely the determine the next action is enough.

flow match the challenge at at hand

complete concentration and in control.

psychological capital - resourceful state of works.

Quotes

- Brain is for having ideas. not for holding them.
- "Mind like Water"
	- Rowers - Swing - swing carries us. but gravity does most of the work.
- if its on your mind, your mind isn't clear.
	- clarify what's on your mind, and what is that you have to do to check this as done.
- the better you get the better you better get

Put things at the front of the door

Book recommendations

Roy Baumeister – Willpower

Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength

Things to research

psychological capital (Psy cap) – resourceful state of works.

Extended Thoughts

Things I think should be added to this concept

  1. Daily Journals