Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day

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In this Make Time summary, you’ll learn the 4 simple but powerful steps to create time and space for what matters most to you. What’s refreshing about this guide is the authors’ premise that no one set of tactics is going to work for everybody—these are strategies to try, to adjust, and to abandon if they don’t work. With new habits and new mindsets, you can stop reacting to the modern world and start actively making time for the people and activities that matter to you. Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, “The best way to spend this time is to cram it full of random meetings! It's not just our devices; our workplaces and our culture have built-in defaults that make busy and distracted the normal, typical state of affairs.

This is a breezy little book with cute illustrations that covers an important topic- how to not waste your life.The authors flesh out this idea with further specifications and with recommendations of how we can increase our focus so that we can dedicate our full attention to the highlight. Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings! The key to getting into Laser mode and focusing on your Highlight is to create barriers to distraction.

Instead, it’s a framework designed to help you actually create more time in your day for the things you care about, whether that’s spending time with your family, learning a language, starting a side business, volunteering, writing a novel, or mastering Mario Kart. But before we get into all of that, we’d like to explain who the heck we are, why we’re so obsessed with time and energy, and how we came up with Make Time. The first step is to "Highlight," or identify the most significant activities that you want to focus on. At peak times, weekends and bank holidays, there can be a very high demand for appointments so please be patient and book early.Resenha original: Em "Faça tempo", os autores nos mostram que costumamos trabalhar com tarefas (geralmente entediantes e mecânicas) e metas de longo prazo. With some simple changes, we learned that it’s possible to redesign your time—to get more focus, greater attention, and better energy for the things that matter to you every day.

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Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky is a framework designed to help you create more time in your day for the things you care about. The authors provide actionable techniques for designing a daily routine that prioritizes deep work and personal wellbeing. Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, “The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings! If we’re honest with ourselves, though, we’ll see that the culprit isn’t just the modern world; it’s also ourselves. Instead of scrolling through your social media news feed, this is a much better way to spend your spare time in my opinion.

The authors are both former Googlers, which brings to mind that other infamous Google guy with a penchant for evolutionary psychology: James Damore, who wrote a memo about the biological differences between men and women to explain why he opposed programs intended to increase representation of women in tech. In a way it was like listening to two old friends telling you how they implemented positive changes in their lives. Because life today is so out of sync with our hunter-gatherer bodies, there’s a huge margin for improvement. Or maybe I mean be more intentional about it because, for me, it's not so much screen time as when I get caught up spending hours and don't get anything out of it. With tips and tricks to help you change your life, it's time to stop daydreaming about projects and activities that you'll get to 'someday', and start that someday today.According to the Busy Bandwagon mindset, if you want to meet the demands of the modern workplace and function in modern society, you must fill every minute with productivity. We took what we learned from designing apps like Gmail and YouTube, and came up with simple ways to fight distraction and take back control. He was a designer for nearly 15 years, working with technology companies including YouTube and Google Ventures.