042: Contextualizing your To-Do List with Ben Elijah
How to Be Awesome at Your Job
How to be Awesome at Your Job
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🗓️ 29 July 2016
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Popular productivity blogger Ben Elijah of inkandben.com fame teaches how to form effective habits and provides pro-tips on determining optimal contexts to rock your to-do list.
You’ll learn:
1) The importance of context in your day-to-day to-do list, and how you can use it most effectively
2) How Ben jots down ideas while in the shower (and now I do too)
3) How to ingrain new habits by using the habit loop
About Ben
Author of The Productivity Habits, Ben studies how our relationship with information affects the way we live and work. As a writer who straddles science and the arts, Ben has a uniquely analytical approach to problems such as information overload, life goals, and well-being.
Items Mentioned in the Show
- Ben Elijah’s book, The Productivity Habits
- Getting Things Done by David Allen
- AquaNotes
- The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
- John Cleese’s speech on creativity
- Ben Elijah’s website
- The discovery of the Higgs Boson particle
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Politics and the English Language by George Orwell
- Ben Elijah’s twitter
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast, the show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required to flourish at work. |
| 0:10.0 | Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money. |
| 0:14.0 | With your host, Pete McKitis. |
| 0:16.1 | All right, well, I think you're gonna enjoy this next guest. We do some deep thinking. |
| 0:25.2 | We get kind of conceptual and dig deep into the nature of the mind and concepts and principles |
| 0:31.3 | when talking about productivity. and that's just how Ben |
| 0:34.1 | Elijah of Inc and Ben.com likes to roll so I think you'll enjoy this and you're going to |
| 0:39.1 | learn one the importance of context in your day-to-day to-do list and how you can use it most effectively. |
| 0:44.0 | Two, how Ben jots ideas down while in the shower, and now I do two, and three, how to |
| 0:50.5 | engrain new habits by using the habit loop. |
| 0:53.6 | So if you want to check out the show notes, |
| 0:55.3 | the transcripts, the links to stuff mentioned in the show, |
| 0:57.7 | you'll find that over at awesome at your job. |
| 0:59.4 | com slash ebb-4-2. |
| 1:01.4 | But if you just want those particular takeaways faster, you can get that in your |
| 1:06.1 | email inbox and an email you can read in under two minutes. If you sign up for the gold nugget |
| 1:10.6 | email list there over at awesome at your job. |
| 1:13.0 | dot com. |
| 1:14.0 | A bit about Ben, he is the author of The Productivity Habits and he studies how our |
| 1:18.3 | relationship with information affects the way we live and work. |
| 1:22.6 | As a writer who straddled science and the arts, |
| 1:25.4 | Ben has a uniquely analytical approach |
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