I like the direction of the text, but you lose me with your motivation section.
Losing weight as an easy task? Motivationally or otherwise? What?
Creative work as a motivationally hard task? So that one could get more motivation from other people’s motivational videos, rather than from one’s own creative impulses? (Yes, writer’s block is a thing, but that’s a more involved topic. Like what happens to the creative aspect if one forces oneself to do creative work, and so on. That’s for a longer text, not for a short one.)
I'd say one of the main things that would be missing in this (for me) is prioritization and goal orientation. I often feel energy and motivation to get things done and have plenty of time to do so, but actually channeling that energy into the important tasks that *should* be prioritized is my prime productivity destroyer.
Hi, wrote down some thoughts on a generalized framework to think about how to get work done. In spirit of taking my own advice and getting feedback on making sure I'm moving in the right direction, posting here. Please rip it to shreds or lemme know if it's useful.
Very broadly, amount of time doing something * how fast you do it
Function of 2 things: motivation, and “having time”
Very broadly, we can define it as desire to do something that we feel is going to be long term productive but maybe short term unpleasant.
How to get motivation?
Basically doing tasks that once again are long term better but short term may not yield immediate benefit.
*How to get time?
Function of 2 things: direction and velocity
How do we know we’re moving in the right direction?
Feelings
Feedback
Are we moving as fast in this as we can?
Tooling/methodology
Feedback