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7 RARE Productivity Hacks Nobody Told You
If you are like me and have just started your career, you want to become more productive so you can get ahead faster than your colleagues and achieve your dreams.
While you probably heard standard productivity advice such as waking up at 4:30 am, having routines, having a daily plan, setting big goals, etc., I’ve discovered seven productivity hacks you can implement today that you probably have not heard of before, especially nr 5.
So without taking extra time, here is hack nr 1, which is
1) Become faster by spending as little effort as possible
You become more productive by producing more per unit of time. The way to do that is to decrease, not increase, the amount of effort, to rack up the total volume.
To illustrate this, think of two people, person A and person B doing exactly the same work task. Person A finishes in 30 minutes but is exhausted. Meanwhile, person B also finishes in 30 minutes but is not exhausted at all. Because person B has so much energy left, he has the potential to become faster and get more done.
So for everything that is on your plate right now, spend as little energy as you possibly can. Get comfortable, and imagine you were extremely tired but had to do it anyway. The less energy…
