What you’ll learn:
How to think about thinking i.e. metacognition.
Increase your cognitive RAM to undertake more deep work
How to plan your week efficiently.
How to plan your day to make it highly likely you will achieve your goals.
How to triage incoming information using the urgent vs important matrix.
How to capture information efficiently for later review.
How to reflect on your day and week to improve your productivity.
Appreciate the difference between motion and action
The Plan, Execute and Reflect schema.
Have a clearer, less stressed mind, known as a “mind like water”.
The system a neurosurgeon uses to be productive both at work and at home.
Requirements:
Very little beyond a pen, paper, an open mind and a willingness to learn.
Description:
Productivity and Time Management: Principles From a Neurosurgeon
There are underlying principles of productivity that when combined create a formula that will not only allow you to achieve your goals, but also improve the quality of your life and wellbeing. In this class I will provide you with my distilled experiences from practising as a neurosurgeon whilst raising a young family, that have allowed me to thrive within a rapidly evolving and chaotic environment.
In this class you will learn how to:
Assess your own thinking.
Create a future environment where you are most likely to achieve your goals.
Plan your day and week to use your time most efficiently.
Deal with unexpected events and prioritise them.
Capture incoming action items in your “second brain”.
Significantly reduce the cognitive strain from work and experience more energy and bouts of deep work.
Experience a mind like water.
In the class overview I will give you a bird’s eye view of the over-arching structure of the class outlining the Plan, Execute and Reflect schema, before diving into the individual lessons and their respective projects.
Plan
In plan I will give you an experience of Metacognition, or thinking about thinking, by involving you in an experiment. After you have had an experience of Metacognition you will be able to engage with the next lesson explaining Hot and Cold thinking and the role this concept fulfils in becoming more productive. Next we will become more real world with an example from my work week of how to plan from a 168 hour perspective.
Execute
