Wie ich Ablenkungen eliminiere

0:00How do you eliminate distraction? >> Oh, this is fun. Okay. Um, so I eliminate it by eliminating it. And that sounds ridiculous, but like I think the vast majority of productivity hacks can get boiled down to remove everything that isn't work. So like my office has no outside light. Um, I try to minimize all the sound in the office. I also put on earplugs and headphones. Um, there's a great app that you can use uh that like blocks your phone so like nothing can get through. So including text, phone calls, slacks, everything. not just social media, like it's a dead element essentially. Um, and you have to physically move across the building, which is how I do it for mine. Um, to like un un mess up your phone and then I just have a clear idea of the work that I need to do. And so it's like when you eliminate everything else, um, and then I just set a kitchen timer for when I how long I expect a task to last, that is when I'm like peak productivity per unit of time. Uh, because there's nothing else to do.

0:56>> So, is this science or is this just you? Because eliminating eliminating natural light, why light for me? Like I I get >> Oh, I get so distracted by light. >> I get boost by like seeing the outdoors and seeing greenery is nice. >> It doesn't work for me, man. >> Yeah. And I I'll be clear like if you find something that works for you, I'll say do that. And for anybody who's like, "All right, do do it your way. I don't care." Like, I'm just saying this is what's for me. I do think there's a decent amount of data that suggests that

1:23>> anything that is not the work distracts you from the work. How do you differentiate between distractions and rest? >> Great question. So, um I think there's there's like kind of like micro macro. So, like from a micro perspective, if you work for 60 minutes or 45 minutes or whatever and then you're like, "Okay, I need a break." If you take the five or 10, you know, 10-minute like walk around the building or walk outside, to me, that's where you can get your natural light and all of that stuff, but then you come back and then you're fresh again and then you hit it. Um I see that I see that rest as productive because it increases the overall net production over a larger period of time. So if you work like that for 12 hours uh and you worked without doing that maybe you can only work 8 hours or you can work the same 12 but you don't get as much done.

2:02So for me uh it's really just the net productivity of a human being is what they get done over a period of time. So productivity has a temporal component to it and an output component. So maximizing output per unit of time is productivity as I define it. And so it is okay. Anything that uh increases that rate of of of work, which for the most part is just deleting the things that aren't work, cuz few people actually work faster. You just don't work when you want to be working. And so I think if you just limit all the time that you're not working when you want to be working, you work a lot more. And if you've ever done the timer thing, which I would highly recommend, you see if you like you truly take your phone away and you block out every single notification and you have, you know, you have script a YouTube video or write an email or make a script or whatever you have to do for your business or write make a landing page. Um, you'll notice that like you'll be like, "Oh my god." And you'll look, it's been like 8 minutes and you're like, "Oh my god." [laughter] Like your like monkey brain wants to be sleeping. When I keep looking at the time and thinking, "Oh man, another 10 minutes went by. That's another 10 minutes I'm not going to be sleeping."

3:00Do you ever look at the time and see 10 minutes went by now? I only got this amount of time and your mind's focused on the time and not the task. >> I don't think about that at all actually. If I if I like if 8 minutes goes by and and I and I worked to the 8 minutes and I'm like, "Oh my god, it was only 8 minutes." I'm like, "I have so much time." Like I did all that in 8 minutes because I was focused the whole time and I only went to go reach for my phone at 8 minutes. I'm like, "Oh my god, I have I have six more." >> You don't see the time as a distraction? >> No, not really. >> Do you have any distractions that still sneak past your filters?

3:28>> Oh, not I mean, not on the phone. I mean that that thing's done. Like it's cooked. >> Twitter. >> No. I mean when I when I'm working I'm not going to >> What about music? You listen to music? >> No. >> Only when >> silence? >> Mhm. Yeah. I have earplugs and headphones. Like it's true silence. >> What do you listen to when you lift? >> Oh, just like the same songs I've had for like 15 years. I don't really change. Um I like Lincoln Park a lot. Like Little Lincoln Park. I listen to 50 Cent. I like 50 Cent. Get Rich Die Trying. I like that entire album. I still also like some of my white boy music. I still listen to Little Green Day, Little Third Eye Blind, Little Third Eye Blind.

4:02>> That's good. >> But yeah, I I like I I only have like, >> you know, 20 or 30 songs that I can listen to like in a workout. So, it's like I kind of have like a list of hundred and they randomly shuffle and that's like my life. >> How often do you skip the song? >> Uh, it depends on what kind of set I'm doing. >> Okay. >> It's like if I'm if I'm early, like if I'm about to hit a work set, like I want to make sure it's a good song. But I think that's everybody. >> So, do you think distracted people then just want it less? H I don't even know how to define want to eat less. Um I would say that for whatever reason they're being more rewarded from their current path than they perceive the reward of the path that they're trying to get on. Like it's just I mean I just I think of everything in carrots and sticks. It's like they have enough stick of other people judging and enough carrot of staying the same that they don't change. They just have to overcome inertia and they just can't do it for whatever reason. And I don't want to pretend like I have some like superhuman willpower. It's just like, you know, I had, you know, it's funny because like when I quit my job, which was still to this day the hardest decision I've ever had to make in my whole life because believe it or not, I'm actually very riskaverse. Um, I can take bigger bets now, but it's because I have more and so like if I lose it's not like the end of the world. Um, but at the time it was like risking everything or what felt like risking everything. And um, that was was it was because I was so miserable. It was the only reason I was able to to do it. Like if if I had been employed at probably just even a different job at a different place, I probably would have been fine and I don't think I'd ever even be here. So I don't think I had a high like predisposition towards entrepreneurship.

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