Productivity Experiments
In addition to writing books, recording a podcast, speaking, and writing articles about productivity, I run the occasional productivity experiment on myself, where I use myself as a human guinea pig to experiment with the ideas I'm researching.
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Completed productivity experiments (in no particular order)
Meditating for 35 hours over 7 days
“your actions are your only true belongings”
Read → 🥱5 things I discovered by making myself bored for a month
“let our mind wander with intention”
Read → 🎤A week of TED experiment results
“Last week I watched as many TED talks as humanly possible”
Read → 📵Using my smartphone for only one hour, for three months
“Your smartphone is a teleportation device.”
Read → 🧠Taking a Bill Gates Think Week
“The more time you spend keeping up, the less time you spend getting ahead”
Read → 🎧How music affects your productivity
“I unpack this musical myth”
Read → 🦴Living like a caveman for a month experiment
“I find history boring”
Read → 📺5 huge lessons I learned binge watching Netflix for an entire month
“Your life is exactly like the Netflix homepage”
Read → 🛋️Top 10 lessons learned: productivity complete slob week
“I love approaching productivity from weird angles”
Read → 🍎Food and productivity
“Lowering my body fat percentage from 17% to 10%”
Read → 💪How I gained 15 pounds of muscle
“intention behind your actions is like the wood behind an arrow.”
Read → ⏱️10 productivity lessons working 90-hour weeks
“By working smarter, not harder.”
Read → 🏚️Living in total reclusion for 10 days
“People matter, perhaps a lot more than you think.”
Read → 💧Top 10 things learned drinking only water: month
“Water is up there with sex as one of the best things ever”
Read → 🥤Productivity experiment eating only Soylent
“Soylent takes all of the decision-making out of eating.”
Read → 😴Productivity experiment: take three hour afternoon siesta
“how it has impacted my productivity”
Read → 👕Productivity experiment: wear: become productive possible
“Confidence and comfort are both ingredients you can use.”
Read → ⏰So far, I've mostly failed at waking up at 5:30
“Almost every morning, I struggle to get out of bed so early”
Read → 🌅Think waking up earlier will make you more productive? Think again.
“There is essentially no difference between waking up early and waking up later”
Read → 🌄The Zen of Waking Up Early: 10 ways to solidify a morning wakeup ritual
“worked better than anything else to help me solidify a morning wakeup ritual”
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