Other examples of this include building the financial model in Excel, creating a lesson plan, or crafting a sales narrative. Kadavy’s framework led me to consider how time and energy work together to influence, and perhaps dictate, what I produce in the world, and it is the most valuable part of the book. Instead of arming you with rose-colored glasses and dragging you deeper into the wishful thinking swamp, like so many "self-help" books do, this book walks you through the author's journey of understanding, embracing and leveraging your own mind. El Mind Management se refiere justo a eso, a entender los estados mentales por los que pasamos a la hora de crear, y de cómo debemos hacer lo posible para que ese ciclo creativo sea lo más fluido posible.

He illustrates this coherency with buckets of time, organized by mental state, spread across his days.I like to do a “weekly review” (a term familiar to GTDers) in which I make a bullet point list of everything going on in the coming week. He notes that just after waking we are usually in a sort of sleep-inertia heavy state of free association.

Giving time for Incubation (waiting or doing other things so that the brain can work out problems and cut out distracting ideas and dead ends) paves the way for Illumination (that sudden "Aha! That does not say he didnt created a good podcast or is not a good graphic designer or dont have interesting life - his narative about himself just dont corelate with the reality in my eyes (I dont know all Davids work - to this time I read Heart To Start, this book and Davids newsletters, heard some podcast episodes). What we learn here is a quite long tale of at the end it’s about breathing in life and whatever it may bring, being kind to others and ourselves and finding our own rhythm to produce what we can be proud of. Make time for planning: Making planning a separate, dedicated activity has two benefits: 1) You can do it when your mental energy for planning is high (I like Sunday evenings), so that you do better planning, and 2) It frees up your precious prefrontal cortex to do other activities — since the planning and prioritization has already been done. A am actually very similar, so Davids life is kind a study for me, some narative triggers me for the same reason and some projection could be present too.Like many books, it is about getting things done, but it faithfully serves its specific audience: creatives.

By managing these mental aspects, we can cultivate a positive and resilient mindset that propels us forward. My experience throughout my day shifted from being an amorphous blur of half-baked intentions that rarely became real, into a somewhat coherent and lucid progression. So, it’s important to get mental rest to keep your prefrontal cortex working well, and to set aside special time dedicated only to prioritization (such as Prefrontal Mondays). This book was part memoir, part personal classification and management of creative moods, and some mixes of the two. While I enjoyed this book and found some good tips, I liked the previous book in the series, THE HEART TO START, even more.

I have found myself forced to adopt a Generate mental state during evenings or mid-afternoons, after a long day. For someone who works within a growing organization requiring high degrees of coordination and an absence of clarity, meetings are frequent and it is often not possible to retain ownership over a schedule. With Kadavy's principles, we can stop struggling to achieve solutions and start letting those solutions "come to us.

Esta propuesta va completamente de acuerdo a las demás cosas que he leído sobre neurociencia y el funcionamiento de la mente, pero lo que siento que este libro viene a completar es el método. This is because you have learned to harness the power of your own mind, and work with it as you face whatever life throws at you.

The most interesting part of the book, or at least the part I found most original, was the segment on clock time vs event time. It is not just information, but ways to renovate and restructure how we think about managing our lives to do the creative work better and with much less frustration. oh no - I am trying to copy and paste quotes from the Kobo app which means, of course, it is not working. There is a fine refutation of the contemporary obsession on time-management, arguing that it's based in Taylorism theories of uncreative factory work.