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The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Smarter Faster Better with Charles Duhigg

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 21 September 2016

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary


Productivity is not about doing things unthinkingly. Productivity is about pushing yourself to think more about things that matter. We know the people who are most productive tend to spend more time thinking about what their priorities ought to be instead of getting into their office and automatically answering emails, then working on their expenses, and responding to phone calls. Instead of going on autopilot, which is what habits help us do, what productive people do is say “I know that’s what I did yesterday, but is that the best use of my time today”- Charles Duhigg


Charles Duhigg is a Pulitzer Prize winning at the New Work Times and the Best Selling author of Smarter Faster Better.


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Productivity is not about doing things unthinkingly.

0:03.0

Productivity is about pushing yourself to think more about the things that matter.

0:09.0

So for instance, one of the best examples of this is that we know that the people who are most productive

0:16.1

tend to spend more time thinking about what their priorities ought to be.

0:21.8

Instead of getting into their office and just

0:23.4

automatically answering emails and then working on their expenses and then

0:28.3

replying to phone calls, instead of going on autopilot, which is what habits help us do, what with the most on best use of my time today. Right? Like what's the biggest priority for today? What's the most important thing?

0:46.0

I'm Sreeni Rao and this is the unmistakable creative podcast where you get a window into the stories and insights of the most innovative and creative minds who started movements built thriving businesses written best-selling books, and created insanely interesting art.

1:03.8

For more, check out our 500 episode archive at unmistakable Creative.com.

1:10.0

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1:24.0

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1:29.0

to help keep future energy costs down for everyone and help cut UK carbon emissions to nothing.

1:35.0

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1:36.6

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1:47.0

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1:50.0

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1:56.3

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1:58.3

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2:01.3

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2:02.3

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2:03.0

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2:08.8

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