Aug 31, 2015
Ben Elijah (@inkandben) is a consultant in the productivity sector and author of the book The Productivity Habits. In this conversation, we dig into the productivity sector as a whole, and discuss his origins as an author and as a not-very-productive person.
This episode is oddly self-referential, as we, two productivity nerds, talk about how bad we are with our own habits, and about how we continually struggle to stay productive — at least in our own eyes. Ben writes and speaks about the topic, which is an ongoing struggle for all of us. You’ll learn some of Ben’s tested habits and techniques you can use to get started down the road toward better effectiveness.
Catch up with Ben via his site, InkAndBen.com
“Really creative people care about things … but do they deploy passion the right way?”
—Ben Elijah
“Education is serial; in work, things come in parallel”
—Ben Elijah
“Who am I going to disappoint today?”
—Merlin Mann
“There isn’t anybody talking about this that isn’t also a student”
—Ben Elijah
“It takes a certain amount of self-awareness just to begin”
—Prescott Perez-Fox
“The world that the human brain has created is very ill-suited to the human brain.”
—Ben Elijah
“Your brain is for having ideas, not for holding them”
—David Allen
“For me to become even moderatel effective has taken nearly 10 years of blood, sweat, tears, and constant failure.”
—Ben Elijah
“A context is a function of space, time, and thought.”
—Ben Elijah
“Switching between tasks has overhead”
—Ben Elijah
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