[[Notes]]
- Topics: [[Productivity]]
- People: [[Jim Kwik]]
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hz4NpIl0kYg
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## Summary
- Have an unshakable to-don't list.
- [[Create meaning with a to-do list. Protect it with a to-don't list.]]
- [[Say no to good so that you can say yes to great]].
- [[First, you create your habits and then your habits create you]].
- [[Put first things first]].
## Notes
- The amount of information exponentially increases every day - every moment. However, how do we process information, how do we learn has remained the flatline same.
- This gap between the ever-growing amount of knowledge and what we perceive to know can cause anxiety. The technical term being information fatigue syndrome.
- [[Tackle the Mount Everest challenge of bridging the knowledge gap with a relentless courage to understand]] - to [[Take one emboldened curious step at a time]].
- One skill to master in the 21st century, is the ability to learn rapidly.
- Find your focus amongst the eternal world of data.
- [[Remove digital distractions and bask in the calm of it's much needed absence]].
- Protect your focus. [[Focus is a personal ethereal thing that the world never stops trying to take]].
- "[[The success that everyone is desiring is hidden in our daily habits]]".
- "[[First, you create your habits and then your habits create you]]".
- "Some of the highest achievers, they have a not to do list".
- [[Create meaning with a to-do list. Protect it with a to-don't list.]]
- "[[Say no to good so that you can say yes to great]]."
- [[Greatness is not a function of circumstance. Greatness, it turns out is largely a matter of conscious choice and of discipline.]]
- Success brings opportunity-stress.
- Avoid checking your phone first thing in the mornings.
- [[Don't let distraction dictate the possibilities of your day]].
- Rewire your mind towards focus and meaning. Rewire your mind towards response not reaction.
- You can feel your emotions, but also be productive as well.
- [[Your inbox is nothing but a convenient organizational system for other people's agenda for your life]].
- [[The simplest thing is to not do something. Yet, it's often the hardest thing to do.]]
- [[We must be good at doing, and great at not doing]].
- Keep learning expose yourself to new knowledge.
- Discover opportunities to download decade's worth of knowledge and experience in days.
- K[[Knowing the details of a concept is not as important as knowing the character of its principles]].
- [[Put first things first]]. Keep the most important thing, the most important thing.
- [[Don't be afraid of failure. Be wary of succeeding at things that don't matter.]]
- Imagine a successful productive day. Then work backwards to discover how that day unfolded.
- You cannot accomplish something meaningful if you're always giving away your sovereignty of focus.
- "[[It's not time management. It's priority management.]]"
- Forgetfulness is a survival mechanism as a result of navigating infinite data.
- "[[We don't need to remember 500 phone numbers, but we lost the ability to remember just one.]]"
- [[Two of the most costly words in life and business is, 'I forgot']].
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