Hello and welcome back to Monocicle, a podcast by manrepeller, hosted by me, Leandra Medine.

I believe that this introduction is becoming somewhat repetitive, and I'd like to test out new

modus operandies, but I need your help. I can't do it alone. Isn't that what a sisterhood is all about?

Constructive feedback.

All right. In this week's episode of Monocicle, what I really want to talk about is the notion of productivity. And I think tonight is an especially interesting night to tackle this topic,

seeing as I got home from work around 715 and surmised that after I opened the boxes that came, changed

into pajamas, washed my face, and made myself dinner, I'd record this episode, be in bed

by 9 p.m., and boom, Shackalaka, asleep by 9.15. Here we are now at 8.55 p.m. just beginning

to record this episode that I was supposed to have done at like

7.15. You know who's not going to be asleep by 915? Me. You know why? Because I'm going to be trying

to preach to you what I don't practice, which is how to be more productive. And you're going to have to

deal with it.

So seeing as it is get your shit together month on man repeller, i.e. a month that we are

dedicating to bettering ourselves emotionally, physically, mentally, all that fun stuff.

I thought that talking about productivity and what actually

works in terms of making yourself productive might make for a compelling episode, specifically

because both Amelia and myself have engaged in so many different quote-unquote man

repeller diets where we've tried to test out different methods that work to help our productivity.

You might remember that Amelia tried something

called the Pomodoro Diet. You're on for 20 minutes, off for 10 minutes, on for 20 minutes, off for 10

minutes. And she was able to write that story faster than she's ever written a story because she was

implementing the Pomodoro diet. I've done things like practice incessant to-do lists. I used to be extremely inefficient

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