How To Be Efficient: Dan Ariely’s 6 New Secrets To Managing Your Time

Here are Dan’s tips in summary:

1. The world is not designed to help you achieve your long term goals. Passivity is not going to get you where you want to go.
2. Control your environment or it will control you. Optimize your workspace for what you need to achieve.
3. Write the things you need to do down on your calendar. You’re more likely to do what you write down.
4. You have about 2 hours of peak productivity, usually early in the morning. Protect those hours and use them wisely.
5. Meetings, email, multitasking and structured procrastination are the biggest time wasters.
6. No, you don’t need an email break. Switching tasks reduces effectiveness as your brain transitions. The more you do it, the less effective you are.

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