How To Be 10x More Productive

How To Be 10x More Productive

To focus, you need some level of adrenaline in your body. It puts you into motion. Sometimes, like in the early morning, you have a natural increase and you manage to get a lot done.

But at other times, you don't feel like doing stuff.

If you ever feel like you're not being productive enough or you're delaying tasks because they're not that important, this tool is for you.

There are people that really like the feeling of something being due in an hour and how activated and sharp and focused that makes them feel. Those people are tapping into the adrenaline system, the stress system and for which the stress really tightens their ability to see. Tt creates that narrow straw view of the world. It creates an action element in the body that makes them feel like they want to move. It really eliminates all the distractions for them. - Andrew Huberman

So a deadline makes you feel agitated. This agitation motivates you to get more things done.

That makes sense. You've left something till last minute before. Then, out of nowhere finished it in an hour when it should've taken 10 hours.

p.s. I need to submit these tools by a certain time and I never start till there's like one hour left :)

If you already have deadlines due today/this week, use them as much as you can. If you don't, make some. You can also create shorter deadlines in pursuit of a bigger goal/project so it's less overwhelming.

It could be: finish a report by tonight, study math by 6pm, or call the person you're avoiding by lunchtime

Set time limits for your tasks. They motivate you to get things done.

To start, you can choose one thing you want to finish in the next 2 hours. Your productivity will skyrocket.

Here's Andrew talking about this tool in detail.