Nir EyalSpeaker on Behavioral Science, NYT Bestselling Author, Former Stanford Lecturer

Stop Using To Do Lists #shorts

Name: Stop Using To Do Lists #shorts
Uploaded: 2023-09-06T16:00:01+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Nir Eyal
Description: A short YouTube #shorts by Nir Eyal arguing that checking off tasks (to-do lists) is a poor measure of productivity because it incentivizes easy or…

6 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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A short YouTube #shorts by Nir Eyal arguing that checking off tasks (to-do lists) is a poor measure of productivity because it incentivizes easy or urgent work over important, hard work. He recommends a single better metric: whether you did what you committed to doing for the duration you committed to (i.e., follow-through on planned tasks for the intended time).

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Stop measuring your self worth by how many cute little boxes you check off. Because when you do that, what you're going to do, you're incentivizing the kind of behavior that leads us to do easy work, that leads us to do urgent work, as opposed to the important and hard work that we have to do to move our lives and careers forward. So instead of measuring our productivity by how many cute little boxes we checked off, a much better way to measure ourselves is by one criteria and one criteria only. Which is did I do what I said I was going to do for as long as I said I would? That's it. That's it.