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The Ivy Lee Method: The Daily Routine Experts Recommend for Peak Productivity
By James Clear | Decision Making, Minimalism, Procrastination, Productivity
By 1918, Charles M. Schwab was one of the richest men in the world.
Schwab was the president of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, the largest shipbuilder and the second-largest steel producer in America at the time. The famous inventor Thomas Edison once referred to Schwab as the �master hustler.� He was constantly seeking an edge over the competition.
One day in 1918, in his quest to increase the efficiency of his team and discover better ways to get things done, Schwab arranged a meeting with a highly-respected productivity consultant named Ivy Lee.
Lee was a successful businessman in his own right and is widely remembered as a pioneer in the field of public relations. As the story goes, Schwab brought Lee into his office and said, �Show me a way to get more things done.�
�Give me 15 minutes with each of your executives,� Lee replied.
�How much will it cost me,� Schwab asked.
�Nothing,� Lee said. �Unless it works. After three months, you can send me a check for whatever you feel it's worth to you.�
The Ivy Lee Method
During his 15 minutes with each executive, Lee explained his simple method for achieving peak productivity:
At the end of each work day, write down the six most important things you need to accomplish tomorrow. Do not write down more than six tasks.
Prioritize those six items in order of their true importance.
When you arrive tomorrow, concentrate only on the first task. Work until the first task is finished before moving on to the second task.
Approach the rest of your list in the same fashion. At the end of the day, move any unfinished items to a new list of six tasks for the following day.
Repeat this process every working day.
The strategy sounded simple, but Schwab and his executive team at Bethlehem Steel gave it a try. After three months, Schwab was so delighted with the progress his company had made that he called Lee into his office and wrote him a check for $25,000.
A $25,000 check written in 1918 is the equivalent of a $400,000 check in 2015.
galumay:
***YOU CAN NEVER PROVE SOMETHING IS TRUE, ONLY THAT ITS FALSE****
Think black swans, for thousands of years most humans only knew there were white swans, they could propose a theory that all swans were white but they couldnt prove it.
One sighting of a black swan by english explorers reaching Australia proved the theory false..
galumay:
An extension of this idea occoured to me that we teach kids absolute misinformation because of this failure to understand the scientific process.
Consider the example of number sequences, children are often asked in primary school maths to complete the "next 3 numbers" in a number sequence,
eg 1,5,6,11,17...... they are taught that the correct answer is 28, 45, 73. But what they should be taught is we cant know what the next 3 numbers are without knowing the rule that the sequence follows. The rule could be, n + n1, n1 + n2, n2 + n3 etc. and thats what the teachers and the students assume, but what if the rule is actually n<n1, n1<n2, n2<n3 etc ? then the answer could be 18, 19, 20 and still be correct! There will potentially be a rather large variety of rules that might be used and a very large number of correct answers.
galumay:
�when you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras.�
galumay:
Galilean relativity & Scotland.
https://www.farnamstreetblog.com/2017/05/galilean-relativity-invasion-scotland/
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