We’ve recently been talking about David Allen’s “Getting Things Done”, so having seen it mentioned in ProfHacker.com, figured it should be posted.
One of the basic principles behind David Allen’s Getting Things Done productivity cult book is that you should mostly use your brain for what it’s good for: thinking, analyzing, and creating. You can free up the mental energy to do these kinds of high-priority and high-reward activities if you stop using your brain as an information storage and retrieval system, things that it generally is less skilled at. Now, obviously, we all have certain kinds of information well stored and easily retrievable in our brains, and you could train your brain to perform all sorts of memorization feats. But unless that in and of itself is your goal, it’s generally more efficient to store some pieces of information outside your head…
via Try a Mind-Sweep – ProfHacker.com.
