Trio #45 On Deleting

3 curated ideas for Consistent Productivity based on a common theme

We bring to you a related set of 3 actionable tips, ideas & advice (mostly from Twitter)! These are meant to expand your thinking, knowledge & empower you to be the best version of yourself. The links (people, tools & processes) are also meant to add value :)

Note - We do not include all tweets in a thread sometimes to avoid hitting email limits & readability. You can always access the whole thread by clicking on the 1st tweet. We append (….) in such cases.

Today's theme is: On Deleting

Often it’s not the things we can increase but those we can DECREASE are the ones that make all the difference to our Productivity & Wellbeing.

1. Follow him for great threads & everything community building
   

   GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

   Things you probably don’t need in your life:

   GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

   Complaining about taxes Taxes suck. Always have, always will It’s the price we pay to live in a functioning society

   GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

   Retirement at age 65 and doing nothing Retirement means you can retire from chasing money Retirement means do what you love You can retire at 25, 35, 45

GREG ISENBERG @gregisenberg

Being serious all the time Best advice I heard on this topic: “You don’t have to be serious to act serious” Smiling, laughing and unserious attitude is a serious life/work unlock

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2. On deleting the falsities that make their way into the sacrosanct vaults of truth -

   Blake Burge 💡 @blakeaburge

   Humans have a tendency to believe false information. Especially upon repeated exposure. It's called the "Illusory Truth Effect" THREAD: Why it happens and how you can train your brain to overcome it. Let's get smarter 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻

   

   Blake Burge 💡 @blakeaburge

   1/ First, some background... In 1977, researchers from Villanova and Temple were the first to coin the term. Over a five-week period, separated into 3 sessions, participants were given a list of 60 statements. Their task? Determine what was true & what was false. How?

   Blake Burge 💡 @blakeaburge

   2/ In each session, 40 statements were unique, while the remaining 20 were repeated from the previous rounds. Over the course of the three meetings, researchers noticed an interesting trend...

   Blake Burge 💡 @blakeaburge

   3/ Participants' belief in the validity of the 40 unique questions remained relatively static. However, when it came to the 20 repeated questions, things changed. Plausibility rankings increased with each subsequent round. But why?

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3. These visuals help us understand exhaustion - and give us keys to removing it
   

   visa is stretching (hips) @visakanv

   lookin' up models of fatigue spirals, exhaustion funnels, etc

   

   

   

   

We hope we are able to delete some “unnecessary stuff” from your life or you can delete us from your Inbox :P

Keep safe and see you soon 💫