The problem with most productivity advice
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Look around and it won’t take long to get a clear picture of how most of the world views productivity... Laziness is the enemy. Procrastination is a sin. And "getting things done" only comes through hard work. But what if overworking is the reason you’re not getting anywhere? What if there was another way to reach your goals? What if you’ve been thinking about productivity all wrong?
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Matt D'Avella, broooooooooooo
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MAKE A gym channel as well , your biceps and body shape have improved ... at least share that journey and thank you for this video
bro you're great
"Don't do more today than you can completely recover from tomorrow." Thank you. I needed that.
Same here, ive been losing sleep over work and its making it harder to do the next day
Thing is, how do you know how much work that is, exactly?
@@ThePC007 unfortunately you gotta experiment with that to find a system/routine that works for you
at least that what i learned from watching an interview of brandon sanderson about how he works 8-10 hours a day while keeping a healthy balance between work and his family
This is The Answer. Thanks, Matt.
That you can recover from BY tomorrow, which is key.
I heard a quote about diminishing returns that fits- “people overestimate what they can do in a day, but underestimate where they can be in a year”
Our AP psych teacher even advises against cramming, telling us to just do a little bit of studying each day
Did my Ap psych exam recently, my teacher said the exact same things!
It’s easy to cram and get nervous over stuff your comfortable with and often times you know more than you think.
Take time and do enough work to make you feel satisfied and caught up, but not too much to cause you to worry :)
That’s a lovely quote!
So what I've got from this video is:
-Don't do more than I can completely recover from by tomorrow
-Be grateful in what I have and find joy in what I can do when facing hardship; be it finding humor in the absurd, going on walks or socializing.
-Set minimum as well as easy to accomplish upper boundaries to work, making it easier to create routines without getting burned out.
-Make a simple done-for-the-day list and write down what has to be done for the day for me to feel satisfied for the day, instead of an ever increasing to-do list.
That's honestly very good advice.
“Don’t do more today than you can recover from completely tomorrow “
Can’t agree more with Greg.We have this saying in Persian, which basically says the key to achieve your goal is to work for it slow but consistent
تو فارسی چی میگیم؟
We have something like that in English too!
“Slow and steady wins the race”
:-)
farsi chi mishe?
Not gonna lie, as soon as I read the title I immediately thought "here we go again, another one of those videos about productivity". Well, I think you proved me wrong, I genuinely think that this is one of the best videos (if not the best) that I've ever seen not only about the topic but in general. Your videos never fail to amaze me! The message was very we'll articulated, the guest was amazing, the production was perfect. Great job❤
Thank you, Manila!
Yeah, all of Matt's videos seem typical from their titles but he always blows my mind with the actual content
@@husseinkobeisi5022 true
What a cool name you have
This was such a refreshing video!
The first thing I told my staff is that I am so totally lazy that I wanted the necessities done as efficiently and quickly as possible.
Then I acknowledged that our work is repetitive, cold and boring, so we were going to make it as much fun as possible. Zero bullying included.
Then I told them they were no use with flat batteries. If they wanted food, coffee or a smoke, they were to indulge rather than follow designated time slots.
Productivity was to be achieved by eliminating all unnecessary stuff and removing obstacles to the rest. How? By engaging the intellect and creativity of every one. It was my job to recognize those talents and deploy them where best suited to that worker.
All I had left to do was show them their contribution to the balance sheet and tell them how amazing they are.
As you can tell, this approach worked a treat.
you are a great boss
@@majorityleader7115 that's not a boss, that's a true leader and all establishments should strive to be this understanding and encouraging of their staff and their ability to achieve. Johan is definitely doing things right for sure
It took me three watch throughs to take this fully in because my conditioned brain resisted so much. Now I’ve got it. Amazing how much our cultures influence our personal rules on how we choose to live, to the point that you actually disagree with your own choices. No wonder I was feeling so stressed. Hope you two have a safe trip back down under.
As a college student this was a breath of fresh air. I constantly find myself working deep into nights just to crash and be tired by noon the next day regardless of how much sleep I got. Gonna do my best to moderate my work, be more consistent, and most importantly, REST more. Thank you
The biggest learning lesson for me here - *”The way we do things is as important as the things we are trying to achieve”* Brought me new perspective 🧡
Genuinely out of interest, what was the perspective change for you? This seemed self-evident to me because the process necessarily leads to the result.
7:17 It's funny that I'm watching this video while currently experiencing what he is telling us. Yesterday I had so much work to do, so many things that I needed to complete, and I made a lot of effort to complete all my tasks. I made it through, it worked it out, but today more work popped up on my radar and I feel exhausted. This boom and bust cycle is definitely something we need to be conscious of so we can find our own ideal rhythms. It's all about the balance, in everything.
I'm astounded at the amazing quality of the interview exchange, audio and video. This is the first time I see it in a youtube setting, and wish this were the standard.
0:19 This is so accurate 😂
Edit: wow, this video is really special - definitely one I’ll be coming back to often.
Greg's book is incredible. I got it because of Matt's video on the books he had read the past year and I am now on my third read of it. Thank you Matt and thank you Greg!
Honestly this is the type of video that I want to rewatch now and again just to give me a big reminder
This is huge, thanks for making this video
Been a while, but I'm happy I took this morning to get back to your channel Matt. I've been living by this concept for the past 8 months now, and I've seen vast improvements in physical health, wealth, and overall stress management. Thank you for your work. I know this will help many people for decades to come.
so how does it look like for you exactly?
I love that you have released so many productivity videos amidst college finals! I need all of them
Newcomer to your channel, I absolutely love it! I sometimes find it hard to get out of bed in the morning - watching your videos with a coffee in bed before I get started is great, light motivation to get started. Thank you x
I throughly enjoyed this considering I’m in a seasons of trying to get my biz off the ground and working harder seems like the only wise choice. Glad to have perspective! Just bought his book too 🤘
This is one of the most helpful videos I've ever watched from you. I am writing that comment from a point of exhaustion as I am trying to resume work having totally burned out 6 months ago
This is one of the best eye openers for me in the most toughest time.
Greg’s lighting on fleek!! Damn bro! This dude should be teaching Lighting Tutorials.
Love the video per usual Matt
Lol thanks Danny! We actually hired a cinematographer to setup a camera at Greg's house :)
It definitely felt like a pro level ad for something :D
As a video game lighting artist, I concur! Good cinematography!
Awwww
@@mattdavella Damn - respect! I was wondering if you gave him some instructions but never thought you send someone to do it!
This really is a very important video. It makes you understand a lot about your current situation and balance in your life.
I’ve been hustling for the past years. It’s the mindset that was popular among my peers, very popular on the Internet for the longest time, it was everywhere. I believed I have to live and breath working hard every day in order to achieve everything I want.
I’ve only recently realized that it made me super unproductive. I wouldn’t rest on weekends because I’ve been thinking about working and pushing myself to do at least a couple of tasks, and during the day I mistook working hard for pushing myself hard to do work, which of course, hasn’t shown good results.
Thanks to videos like this I begin to shift. I started pushing myself less. I still feel like I do less, but in reality I get much more done and have much more strength for the next day.
There has to be a balance between working and resting. Resting is an investment in better work.
Thanks for the advice Matt, really appreciate it! ❤️
OMG the sparkle in his eyes! I want to reed the book now. Thank you for providing this information.
i didnt expect the video to be this good but it turned out really helpful. thanks for these nice and clear advices :D
They progressed every day without particular effort. LOVE THIS! Putting this in place for my work and my weight loss journey. Every day, 15 miles, no more no less, but always put in the 15 miles. This is achievable and enjoyable and reliable.
2:00 that Zoom sound effect thought someone just jumped into my computer. I FREAKED OUT
Yayyyy I love Greg! Another banger video, Matt!
i loved this video!! great interviewing by matt and awesome energy and inspiration from greg. thanks so much!
This is life changing advice. Thank you.
Wah! Love it! Need to re-watch it all over again to give me more rest and pursue the slower pace, because otherwise, it's just pushing more and faster each day.
Thank you so much for bringing this topic to us! I needed it so much! You are amazing at this! Keep up the amazing work! Greetings from ES
Wow, what an inspiring video about the importance of rest! Thank you so much 😊
Needed this, gonna listen to it again
Matt, thank you very much for bringing Greg McKeown on the show!! I found his tips truly mind-blowing!!! ☺️
oh wow. When I saw you including a writer in your video I thought "Great, it's gonna be a sponsorship video with no information without any ad purposes." I am glad I was so wrong. That guy is certainly worth listening to and noting. Thank you!
Wow. It’s crazy how much I needed to hear this today.
Thank you for this.
Wow! You have no idea how much I needed to hear this.
Matt, thanks for this video! 👍
I think this was one of your best videos ! Greetings from Chile and thank you a lot 🇨🇱
Bro idk what to say literally just knocked it out of the park with this one 👏
Much needed video Matt. God Bless you.
Love the informative interview style!
Thank you so much. I badly needed this.
Thanks, Matt for bringing this.
After this video, I read up on the "race to the South Pole," and, as with many self-help-ified versions of historical events, the truth is far more complicated.
The British expedition were just that, an expedition. They were not a team "racing" to the pole and had no idea another group was vying to beat them. In addition to traveling to the pole, their objective was to undertake scientific analysis. Their findings did later prove to fill in significant gaps in meteorological, geographical and biological knowledge.
The Norwegians set sail planning to travel to the north pole but were surprised when their leader informed them they were going south instead in a last minute decision to try to beat the Brits. Their entire objective was to beat them with no other concerns.
The Brits wore poorer clothing, which trapped sweat and allowed it to freeze. The Norwegians wore clothing fashioned after Inuit technology. The Brits were not prepared for the food demands of the extreme cold. The Norwegians, who had traveled the north many times, were better prepared in quantity and quality. The Brits also had less experience traversing snowy terrain. By contrast, the Norwegians were highly accustomed to dog sled travel.
Despite being the "first" to the South Pole, the Norwegian leader was ostracized for his "ungentlemanly" and unsportsman-like behavior, particularly in not publicly announcing their intentions to the world or the British expedition.
The "race to the South Pole" is an example of experience and conniving to achieve a goal, not pacing. There is no way to know in this case, had both teams gone in with equal experience, equipment, and purpose, whether a 100%-every-day or paced progress would have won the day.
(I still think rest is extremely important and hustle culture is self-sabotaging, but there must be better examples to use. Regardless, I've ordered Greg's book, and I'm looking forward to reading it!)
I want to thank you for pointing that out and for stating what *actually* happened for contrast! I believe this is useful so while we still get the main concepts off the video's example, we now also know how reality was and their intentions as well.
Awesome! I just grabbed his book as well!
Thank you so much, really needed this!
What a video! Thank you for this!!
Thanks for the video!
It would be great if Matt also revealed the topic of recreation. And how to rest properly? How to do it more effectively?
Watching myself, I realized one thing, that the brain perceives rest a little differently. If for us rest is to go lie down, watch a video or go out into nature, for example. And for the brain, I think the most important thing is to change attention from one thing to another. For example, reading, or maybe new hobbies. In this process, physically, I would not say that there is rest, but on a psychological level, I think there is even quite.
I love your videos! Thank you Matt
Great video as always, thank you
Amazing Video! thanks for all the great content!
Love this!
Great interview! Loved this video
Maybe one of the most interesting videos I have seen in a lot of time. Great work, really both enjoyable but deep
I'm enjoying the longer videos Matt
This video dropped at the right time. Sounds like all it takes is for people to avoid stresses. Don’t worry about every little thing. Stop looking at what everyone else has or what those around you are doing. Always sounds like it comes down to not letting other’s expectations influence you. There’s that part of people that overworks because they’re trying to keep up with other people or be where others expect them to be.
Great video, thank you!
This is mind blowing. I'm a kindergarten teacher and I am a firm believer in slowing down and letting kids play. We do the alphabet and sight words but this video affirmed my philosophy in education and how I can support teachers. ❤️
Legendary! This is very true
Love this man; much needed 🙌🏻
one of the best videos I have ever seen on yt
The intro is epic.
Thank you for the great content.
I really needed this. Thanks Matt
SO Helpful. THANK YOU.
Loved this! Thank you
Thank you. This video has some insights that really helped me get unstuck tonight.
Thanks man, for this video. :D
I left my job 2 months ago in order to start learning things and start my own business and yesterday I just realised I am doing nothing but work, I never look after myself, I never relax or anything.
This video came at a perfect time. It has just changed my whole perspective on being productive, I am literally smiling for the first time in 2 months. Thank you for this video!
Brilliant advice!
Great video! Thank you
So much value there !
I just had the worst day of my life, I woke up full of unknown stress, lots of anxiety and I even started to feel sick. Everything I did this day started the question of "When are you going to do all the other things you have on your to do list?" and it stressed me out. CZcams decided that this video should pop into my feed, and now I'm here, watched your video and I'm already feeling 100 times better and ready to start a new chapter in my working life, slow progress shall lead to succes. Thank you Matt.
I like this content direction, Matt. Thanks for posting.
Really digging this style of video man! Makes me miss your pod!
Your videos are always so great and motivating. 👍👍👍
Great content Matt ,thanks for helping us improve our lives.
What a great suprise to see Greg McKeown. Matt, it was a wonderful video. Like your content so much. BUT FOR TODAY I like to say, I love the was you arranged and designed that wonderful video. Thanks for that.
Ok, so I needed this video and I didn't know it. Thank you!!!!!!!! x1000
This is amazing!
Wow, what a great video. I’ll save it so I keep coming back to this as a reminder.
This was an eye opener
Th best video about productivity, I watched this to the end!
This video is amazing!
Thank you for the content! Very interesting 🙂
Thank you sir. Truely.
@restless_rat dude im not :D
Wow. This makes a lot of sense. I will try this out.
the phone part was hilarious 😂
Thank you so much I learned a lot from your video
Thank you!:)
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Greeeaaaaat video Matt!, Thanks So Much :)
That story about the norwegian team reaching for the South Pole just blown my mind! Also, I'll think I'll apply the "one sentence per day" rule to my blog. Thank you Matt as always for the inspiration ^_^
Excellent, excellent video!
Thanks Matt,
For helping in getting out of hard times..(#Love..)
This is great dude! This concept resonates a lot with Deep Work concepts that Cal Newport talks about.
This burnout thing can be so bad/severe. It can literally ruin lives. Sorry in advance for the wall of text; I’m just telling with story with my experiences. :)
I was a “perfect grade” type of teen and young adult. I’m generally a pretty book smart person, but the grades never came easy for me in all subjects. Some subjects were easy, like biology, but that’s because I’m heavily invested in it in my free times as an interest and hobby. But mathematics, a few foreign languages (I’ve studied 5, and can speak, read and write 3 - English being my the 3rd), history and chemistry all required an extreme amount of effort and many all-nighters.
Every grade that wasn’t perfect was a failure, and just meant even less sleep and more work.
I also developed some chronic and incurable health problems in my early teens (unrelated to “hustling” - apparently just unfortunate genetics), and it just made everything even worse.
Everything together utterly destroyed my brain in the end. I completely shut down, and lost all interest in almost everything, and even life in the end. I just existed.
I stopped my education, because I couldn’t take it anymore, and went to work part-time in a package sorting center for my country’s national postal company, to sustain myself. The pay was actually quite good, even part-time, with a pension (with special health insurance tied to it, as a bonus) and pay bonuses at the end of the year, so that was nice.
I’ve later found out I was severely depressed and had chronic anxiety. I couldn’t deal with pressure at all anymore.
And here’s where things get weird for me. I was reading up on some of latest research on one of my health problems (chronic migraines), and found a small (like 36 or so patients) double-blind, placebo-controlled clinical trial, where they tested capsules of “magic mushrooms” at very low doses (known as microdosing), for chronic migraines and cluster headaches. The effects were close to miraculous on both types of headaches, compared to medications available at the time. They acted both as preventative and reducing intensity of the pain in many of the patients, and effects lasted up to two weeks after stopping treatment for some of the patients. Nothing to that effect had been discovered for over 30 years for these types of headaches.
(The drug Erenumab has since been approved for migraines, afterwards.)
Anyway, I was intrigued. I talked to a friend about it, and he said an acquaintance of his had used it for years for cluster headaches.
I started reading more and watching people talk about it on CZcams and saw that it had helped people with a whole host of mental problems as well, like treatment resistant depression, PTSD, anxiety, addiction etc.
I also read that it isn’t addictive, and has very few side effects at such small doses. My other medications actually do.
So I took the jump. I ordered some pre-dosed “magic truffles” from the Netherlands, where it’s legal, so it’s very controlled selling in actual shops, to my country (where it isn’t legal, but a misdemeanor).
It’s literally one of the best things I’ve done in my life. It’s like it kickstarted my brain. Like my brain needed to be “turned off and on again” to work properly. My migraines are much better, though not completely gone, my depression and anxiety have improved immensely as well. I’ve been able to resume my studies after many years being out of school. I actually look forward to my life again. Productivity is way up again, I sleep better, and I’m just happy in general. I just set upper limits for myself again, like this guy said.
I know it’s not something everyone can partake in, but I just wanted to share my story. It might help someone in a similar situation to my own. :)
I don't personally know you, of course, but I'm absolutely happy you shared that with us! Way to go, sometimes we just need that little kickstart to turn our life back around. Thank you!
I concur, I'm kinda going through a period of struggle myself because of how hard I worked for perfect grades. I saw anything under a B as a failure and my primary goal was to be as professional with my work as possible, I did my absolute best in all my classes, but then after I had some health issues that came up, I just broke. I couldn't work for months on end, I tried desperately to claw my way back to that life I had before where I could work for 13 hours straight on school if I was falling behind on anything, I have definitely learned a lot through my struggles and am trying my best to reconstruct my working habits to work better, still struggling but I think I know what I need to do now, I may be wrong but I've determined that making a decision is better than making a perfect one.
I think the best advice I'd be able to give to others would be a few things, stop reminding yourself of stressful things so frequently, stuff like self judgements, current events, etc, they have their place but they can't impede on the rest of your day without negative effects. Making just a decision is better than making the perfect decision, waiting for the perfect decision to come to mind will waste valuable mental energy. Don't be scared to ask others for help, I think this one may especially have been one of the reasons for my current downfall, I was too scared and lazy to ask for help, I thought I could just work through it on my own and be fine, and I was scared about feeling lesser because of it. My ego wouldn't let me, and that resulted in me continuing to follow negative patterns. So basically, 1: Stop stressing all the time, 2: Making a decision is better than making the perfect one, and 3: Don't be afraid to ask for help when needed.