How do we pick and prioritize the activities that are going to give us the most potent impact?

8 Jan 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue by Bill Gallagher about prioritization and time management. The speaker emphasizes being clear about goals, recognizing limited time, and deliberately choosing activities that deliver the most potent impact. He gives a medical-school anecdote: he skipped many classes and reduced extra studying, preferring efficient approaches (e.g., reading the syllabus) to maximize limited time.

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Well, I wanted to focus because it was the only way you could actually do these really different things at the same time and to try and do them at a high level. So the point was, I knew I didn't have more time than anyone else did. And so it became very important to, number one, be clear that I wanted those things. And then the second piece was really to say, how do you then say, like, pick the activities that you're going to invest time in that are going to give you the most potent impact because you're definitely not. Like, I was not doing all the extra studying that many of my med school colleagues were doing. I was often not going to class because I knew I could more efficiently read the syllabus versus go to class for that hour.