4 Lesser-Known Mental Models That Save Me 30+ Hours Every Week

I’m the kind of person who wants to exploit as much juice as I can out of my life. And hence, I like to be productive and taking as much action as I can. To that end, I’ve learned or developed mental models that allow me to save time and get more done on any given day. In this article, I want to share 4 of these with you. <h1>#1: A Counterintuitive Way to Set Daily Goals</h1> Let’s begin with goal-setting and why I advise against doing this in the usual way. <h2>The usual way of setting daily goals: Deciding the quantity of work to be done</h2> People usually set goals by deciding how much work they’ll get done in a day. Examples: <ul> <li>“I’ll write this report today.”</li> <li>“I’ll write three chapters of my book today.”</li> <li>“I’ll study this chapter from my textbook today.”</li> </ul> However, there are a couple of problems with this approach. <ol> <li>The quantity of work is fixed. So quality must be variable. Consider this. If you tell yourself that you’re supposed to write a given report today, you’re fixing the amount of work that needs to be done. Hence, your goal becomes to complete the report at any cost. But what if writing a high-quality report actually takes over 10–15 hours? Something you cannot complete in a day? But you’re still determined to complete the report in a day? You will have no choice but to do that by compromising the quality of the report.</li> </ol> <a href="https://betterhumans.pub/4-lesser-known-mental-models-that-save-me-30-hours-every-week-efc60f88ec7a">Website</a>