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Effectiveness beats efficiency. Most people confuse speed with progress, but real productivity means identifying your most valuable work first, then putting energy there, even if it means thinking before acting.
Effectiveness beats efficiency. Most people confuse speed with progress, but real productivity means identifying your most valuable work first, then putting energy there, even if it means thinking before acting.
Be effective, not efficient. Most people who want to be productive, they think about efficiency. How do I get the most done in the least amount of time? I fall in that category. The problem is that it's easy to mistake motion with progress. And just because you do something well or fast doesn't make that thing important. It is far more important to just identify what is the right thing for me to spend my energy on. And I might waste an hour thinking about that thing before I even put my hands on the keyboard or try to do something. I focus on effect, whereas I think most people focus on efficiency.
