Get aquainted with productivity vocabulary

Here, I am going to go through all those fancy ideas that really caught my attention and left me pondering for some time. I call it Productivity Vocabulary. So, here you go 😀

What is a goal collection?

This methods will help you get clarity about your goals and transform them from vague desires and daydreams into concrete objectives.

• Take a piece of paper and start writing ALL your goals, no matter how big or small.

What is 5-4-3-2-1 technique?

This method helps to timeline your goals to help achieving them

• Go through your goals collection and identify goals you’d like to achieve in the next five years.
• Then, find goals you’d like to achieve in the next four months.
• Repeat the process for the next three weeks, two days, and
• finally, for the next one hour.

What is a goal sprint?

This is a method used to break a big-picture goal down into smaller components.

What is Ultralearning?

Ultralearning is a strategy for aggressive, self-directed learning. It's a strategy — meaning a choice about how to pursue learning to get results. It's aggressive—meaning aimed at doing what works, even if it's a little harder or intense. It's self-directed—meaning you're the one in control. --Scott H Young

Learn more about Ultralearning

Active Leadership

• Leadership is NOT about controlling people
• From worst to first
• Leader - Follower -> Old idea, good for physical work
• Leader - Leader -> Cognitive
• Make decisions without being told.
• Turning followers into leaders
• Delegating control or decision making as much as is comfortable
• Provide your people with the objective and let them figure out the method
• 3C - Control, Competence, Clarity
• Clarity & Competence are required to play control
• Achieve excellence, don’t just avoid errors

Frustration barrier

• A term coined by Josh Kaufman defined as

  a period of time in which you're horribly unskilled, and you are painfully aware of that fact.

• It takes about 20 hours of practice to break through the frustration barrier i.e to go from knowing absolutely nothing about what you are trying to do to performing noticeably well.

Book Reference: The First 20 Hours - How to learn anything fast

References

• Book: “Turn the ship around” by L. David Marquet
• Talks at Google by L. David Marquet