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The Inforium

You Need to Do a Reset (Ep. 87)

The Inforium

Thomas Frank and Martin Boehme

Work Smart, Career, Class, Productivity, Lifehacking, Learning, Business, College, Education, Lifestyle Design, Personal Branding, 101, University

4.8998 Ratings

🗓️ 7 December 2015

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

This episode is about taking time to hit the reset button on your productivity and time management systems - and even on your brain. I did this recently, and the result were immediate. Let's talk about that. Full show notes Things mentioned in this episode: Entropy 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades - my free book Todoist Habitica The Best Thing You Can Do For Your Productivity with Chris Bailey A Life of Productivity Ancillary Justice The Wind-Up Girl Environmental impact of various meats and other foods Clearing to neutral Mise en place Casey Neistat's daily schedule The Power of Habit Rhode Island hospital "Never let a crisis go to waste." Want more cool stuff? You can find all sorts of great tools at my Resources page. You can also get a free copy of my book, 10 Steps to Earning Awesome Grades (While Studying Less), by staying up to date with the College Info Geek newsletter. If you enjoyed this episode, subscribe to the podcast on iTunes! It's easy, you'll get new episodes automatically, and it also helps the show gain exposure :) You can also leave a review! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

Hey it's Thomas Frank. I've just got a quick note for you before we get into the show.

0:03.2

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0:34.0

Hey everybody and welcome to the college info geek

0:41.0

podcast. My name is Thomas Frank and this is the show that helps you become a more effective student.

0:46.2

And in this episode, it's probably going to be a pretty short one and I'm going to tentatively title it. You need to do a reset. Now this is a little bit of

0:56.1

self-insertion into your own life. I don't know for sure that you need to do a reset but I recently had to do some resets in various areas of my life and

1:09.4

I think this week has been really productive. It's been a pretty good week on average for me and this is due to these resets.

1:18.0

So I kind of want to just give you a little bit of kind of an update, a story about how I have been kind of failing

1:27.6

and keeping my organizational systems running as smoothly as you may believe that they run on my videos.

1:35.0

And this is something that maybe you know this and maybe you don't know this,

1:41.0

but anybody who writes or makes content on productivity

1:45.5

anybody who purports to be a productivity guru quote unquote which I don't

1:49.7

because I do not like that word they are not perfect with their productivity.

1:54.3

They have slumps and they have bad days and they get excited about systems and they write about

1:58.6

them and they try them out for a while and they work super well and then over time things kind of decay and the family wants you

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