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25 published records
“Energize is sort of like a booster to laser. It's sort of like the big idea is that our brains and bodies are connected and our ability to pay attention and to focus and to do those things that we care about only works when we are well and we have slept, we have eaten well, we have exercised, we have talked to other people the right amount, not too much, not too little and so we put this as part of the make time framework because we don't think you should go crazy, try a million biohacker type of things, but we do think it's worth applying this same philosophy of pay attention to what's working, what's not, have a system, try some new things, pay attention to those things, run these experiments.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think what's awesome about it is as a product manager, the idea of containing a new idea experiment to five days versus this ongoing teams distracted on this idea just like, "Cool, we're going to spend a week, see where this goes.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think there is, part of the busy bandwagon, or part of the infinity pools thing, is this feeling inside that I'm responsible for staying up to date with the most important news in the world, or the most important news in my inbox, or my company or my team, work, and I'm responsible also for getting the very best of entertainment that's out at this moment that's the most topical and the funniest, or the most interesting, whatever, at this moment.”
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“Generally, although I think that that's probably more important for a certain kind of highlight.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“You missed a bunch of stuff that had no impact on your life. And so I think doing that exercise helps you realize that and I don't need to be on Twitter all the time.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I think there's this notion that we will use willpower maybe comes from the fact that some people can, maybe some people are just using willpower or they're on Twitter, they're on Instagram, they're on TikTok, they're on Facebook, they're doing all these things, and they're also functioning just fine, or at least what we see from the outside is just fine.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I was distracted, I was in my email, I was doing everything that I would say you shouldn't do, I was doing.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Like you delete an app and then you reinstall it, I think that's okay. So, I think that's an important takeaway from this is don't feel like you're failing if you're not doing all of the things that we're talking about today.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Another thing that I think is quite powerful at the end of the day is to write down, keep a notebook by the side of the bed and write down one or two or three things that you are grateful for during the day, just like a simple gratitude journal.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“You talked about this idea of Project A, like here's the thing I really want to get done, but the dopamine hit us so far in the future, and it's so hard. And so, the reason I think the highlight is so powerful is, you get one thing done you're proud of, that is a great day.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Every month, every week, generally speaking, it gets easier." And I think that is true, so just keep that in mind if you're ever feeling like it's overwhelming.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“If folks know that story where there was a siren, I don't know, cliff thing where he's just sailing.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“There's a few tactics that Jake and I both use that are related to TV, watching TV, and a really simple one, which is also kind of a luxury one, but I think there are ways to do it that are pretty universal, is just not having a TV in your main living space.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“You also reminded me of this app I'll mention briefly that I think you guys will love, I don't know if you've heard of this.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“A lot of this stuff, there's a visualization I think of where I've got the highlight in front of me.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“This is going to help me stick to some of the things you teach. And I've already actually implemented a number of the things you recommend, but this is reinforcing it.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“When I wake up, I'm going to schedule when I exercise, when I eat breakfast. I'm going to schedule when I take a shower, everything, and block it all out.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We had a previous guest on, Neer Eyal, also talking about productivity, and he had actually the same advice of just using your calendar as your to-do list, basically, because that's where time's going to go, what your calendar's telling you to do.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Email is a huge infinity pool and it's probably the single hardest thing for the two of us to control and avoid getting sucked into. And anybody listening to this is going to, I think, understand how powerful those pools are and how effectively designed and engineered those products are to be really compelling and to be friction-free and to just make it easy for us to dive back into that pool.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“They usually know, but it's very hard to actually make time for those things. And I think the problem is that most productivity advice focuses on getting better and faster about doing the things that are already in front of you.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because it's kind of simple and it sort of fits with these experiences that I've had for many years doing sprints, that it works.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“Because that way, even if your browser remembers your password, or I use one password, so even if the browser extension is going to fill it in for me, there's still another step, so it's sort of reverse engineering my own distractibility.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“I use different tactics than John does, and some of his don't work for me, and vice versa.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“When we wrote this book, it came out in 2018, I think we said we thought it was going to get worse, and it has.”
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- Lenny's Podcast
“We started experimenting with applying those in our own day-to-day lives, and we found that some of those things were super effective and they were a bit counter to the way we'd sort of heard or learned about productivity.”
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