Productivity VS. Effectiveness with Ari Meisel
Kwik Brain with Jim Kwik
Jim Kwik, Your Brain Coach, Founder www.KwikLearning.com
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🗓️ 3 August 2018
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Modern life is so busy that we all feel like we’re continually hustling yet still falling behind. We all want more resources and advantage, especially to know the secrets of how to use our minds better to become more productive.
A productivity expert, CEO and best-selling author who has built his career on teaching others how to work smarter—not harder—today’s guest Ari Meisel is here to tell us how we can all learn to be more effective in our daily lives and free up time for the more important things in life.
So many of us have been taught that being productive is all-important, but the truth is that we should be thinking about how we can be more effective—that is, learning how to do more with the resources we already have, rather than burning out trying to produce more. Innovation never comes from having too many resources—it comes from restricting your resources, thinking innovatively about effectiveness and asking yourself: what’s a better way to do this?
In today’s conversation, we talk about the difference between productivity and effectiveness, why the brain works better with constraints in place, why you should outsource your brain, and why you should take a hard look at how you are spending your time and money. If you love this episode, watch out for our upcoming second episode with Ari, where we’ll discuss the technology he uses to maintain his incredible levels of productivity.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to QuickBrain, Bites-sized brain hacks for busy people who want to learn faster and achieve more. |
| 0:06.0 | I'm your coach, Jim Quick. |
| 0:08.0 | Free. You are mine. Let's imagine if we could access 100% of our brain's capacity. |
| 0:15.0 | I wasn't high, wasn't wired, just clear. |
| 0:18.0 | I knew what I needed to do and how to do it. |
| 0:20.0 | I know Kung Fu. |
| 0:22.0 | Show me. |
| 0:24.0 | Welcome back, Quick Brain. |
| 0:26.0 | So how do you become more productive? |
| 0:29.0 | I mean, that's really the question of current times everybody has a to do list everyone |
| 0:34.8 | feels like they're falling behind we all have this this experience where we're |
| 0:39.0 | hustling but we want more return on our resources of time energy focus and to answer this question I've brought to you my productivity coach I don't say that very often |
| 0:49.6 | I mean I think everyone has needs to have a coach or a mentor, a voice coach, a marketing coach, a personal trainer. A brain coach. That works. And so Ari Misell is here with me. We've met a number of times speaking at events together. |
| 1:04.0 | Yes. |
| 1:05.0 | And most recently I got to get to share at your mastermind, which was unbelievable. |
| 1:10.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:11.0 | Unbelievable. |
| 1:12.0 | Absolutely unforgettable. So you. Unbelievable. |
| 1:13.0 | So you are the author of The Art of Less Doing. |
| 1:18.0 | So our listeners, they are always looking for an edge. |
| 1:21.0 | They want an advantage. They want to be able to use their mind, their thoughts, their habits, their focus in the best ways possible. |
| 1:28.0 | So when we're talking about how to be more productive, how do you approach this for someone who's listening to this? |
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