The Most Overrated Productivity Hacks and More (TPS499)

Asian Efficiency

Is the Pomodoro Technique overrated? How about the Eisenhower matrix? Which productivity technique does Brooks and Thanh disagree about?

In this episode of the podcast, we discuss overrated productivity techniques, Type-A relaxation, and the results of a country-wide 4-Day Workweek experiment that we shared in a previous episode.

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• Top 3 Productivity Resources [2:50]
• Is Type-A relaxation a problem? [5:06]
• Which productivity techniques are completely overrated? [16:19]
• Whatever happened with that 4-Day Workweek study? [44:21]

Links:

• Shopify
• 1Password
• 25X Productivity Coaching
• The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Revised and Updated: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
• Simple Scan | Agile Tortoise
• Tweet by @jonnym1ller
• The Science of Creativity & How to Enhance Creative Innovation – Huberman Lab
• Productivity hacks that don’t work or are overrated : r/productivity
• Four-day workweek: Firms in UK make the move permanent after world’s biggest trial
• Productivity Academy
• The Productivity Show on Youtube
• The Productivity Show Youtube Clips
• Become a member of TPS+
• Take the Productivity Quiz

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