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Brad Aeon, Ph.D.

@BradAeon

I'll always have time for you. Time management researcher.

 Montréal, Québec
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Joined November 2019
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Do you feel like movies are getting more fast paced? In the 1950s, movies had about 5 shots per minute. Today, they have 3 times as a many!
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Believe it or not, it's likely you'll have more leisure time in the future. What will you do with it?
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If it feels like time has a different value depending on the city, it's because it does.
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This is 100% correct.
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"Finish what you start" is honestly terrible advice.
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That guy was Amos Tversky, one of the greatest minds in behavioral economics. Just because you've invested time/money or any other resource into something doesn't mean you have to continue.
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Persistence is very different from progress.
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Lemme ask you a question. Imagine you had two to-do lists.
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A good test is this: if you reopen your project and you have to ask yourself “what do I actually do right now?”, your cue is not specific enough.
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If you don’t write a simple, very simple concrete action to do, you’ll likely find the project too overwhelming. And that’s normal, because “write 400-page report” IS overwhelming when you think about it. “Jot down three things” to get started isn’t.
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