Stress-free productivity does exist

When Winifred Gallagher, author of Rapt: Attention and Focused Life, was diagnosed with cancer, decided that that hard disease and its treatment shouldn’t be at the center of her attention at all times. She realized that when she paid attention to the things she enjoyed about life rather than to her disease, her day went through in a much more pleasant way.

This weekend we have updated the FacileThings web application with a few improvements related to the management of the Calendar:

When the psychologists Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi and Gregory Feist studied the lives of the most creative people in a wide variety of fields, they discovered that most of them were sufficiently introverted to spend large amounts of time alone. Introverts feel more comfortable in solitude, and that is a great stimulus for creativity.

There are tons of people who do what’s strictly necessary to keep their current working and living situation, and that might be alright. It’s a life philosophy as right as any other, although it has more inconveniences than advantages.

The biggest difference between dreamers and doers is the results they’ll see. The reality of the matter is that neither of those people will reach their fullest potential without proper planning and execution. If you spend the whole time planning, you’ll never get anything done. If you spend the whole time doing, there’s no way to assure the efficiency and timeliness of what you’ll achieve.