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Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

691: Triage by Steve Pavlina

Optimal Living Daily - Personal Development and Self-Improvement

Optimal Living Daily LLC

Mental Health, Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

4.63.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2017

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Steve Pavlina shares how triage relates to task management. Episode 691: Triage by Steve Pavlina (Developing Habits & Personal Growth). Steve Pavlina is widely recognized as one of the most successful personal development bloggers on the Internet, with his work attracting more than 100 million visits to his website, StevePavlina.com. He has written more than 1300 articles and recorded many audio programs on a broad range of self-help topics, including productivity, relationships, and spirituality. Steve has been quoted as an expert by the New York Times, USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, the Los Angeles Daily News, Self Magazine, The Guardian, and countless other publications. He's also a frequent guest on popular podcasts and radio shows. The original post is located here: https://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2006/12/triage Visit Me Online at OLDPodcast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

This is Optimal Living Daily Episode 691, triage by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com

0:06.8

and I'm Justin Mollick, the guy that reads to you every single day so that you don't have

0:10.6

to read for yourself.

0:12.3

For now, it's here today's post and start optimizing your life.

0:16.7

3.

0:20.1

Triage by Steve Pavlina of StevePavlina.com

0:24.9

In battlefield medicine, the principle of triage involves dividing patients into three

0:29.4

groups.

0:30.4

1.

0:31.4

Those who will die anyway whether they receive medical attention or not.

0:35.5

2.

0:36.5

Those who will survive anyway, whether they receive medical attention or not.

0:40.4

3.

0:41.4

Those who will survive only if they receive timely medical attention.

0:45.8

Despite its morbid nature, triage is extremely important if you want to maximize the number

0:50.9

of lives you save.

0:52.5

If you don't do it, the results will be far worse than if you do.

0:57.2

Triage is also a key principle of time management.

1:00.6

In this case, you divide your tasks, projects and activities into three groups.

1:06.1

1.

1:07.3

Projects that will fail to have a significant impact whether you do them or not.

1:11.5

2.

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