This is Stephen Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Thomas is a genius.

It's not his fault.

He is an angst-ridden teenage cyborg with an IQ somewhere north of 400, just like me and you,

and with so much spare brainpower, he has a lot of things going on.

To fit in with his social group, he has a full course load of high school classes.

He's on the yearbook staff and the track team, and he actually has turbo boost built into both

legs, and it turns out that's not among the list of prohibited enhancements for track competitions.

At home, he's working on a perpetual motion machine,

a new clean energy source, an instant teleportation machine, and of course building an accurate

replica of the Vatican in Minecraft. As you can imagine, his bedroom is covered with scraps of paper,

notebooks for each project, and file folders full of schematics. He may be super smart, but it's super hard to get anything done

when everything is scattered around in a dozen places.

Plus, cybernetic or not, being a teenager, he's lazy.

All those spiral notebooks loaded into his backpack get heavy,

and they crowd out the room that he needs to carry the Legos

that he'll be using to build the teleportation machine.

It's too much.

He needs a way to be super productive on dozens of projects at once without burying himself in chaos.

And of course, just like you, being super smart, of course he came to the Get It Done Guy podcast

for the answer. He found it in episode 171, how to create one master system to organize your life,

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