Warum dein Gehirn Aufgaben nicht abschließen will

0:00The moment you begin working is when your output per unit of time goes up. And so that makes beginning the single greatest hack that you can have >> for everything else that you do in work. Because thing is when you start working, you start getting in the mood to work, right? Like everything else is procrastinating around the work that you think you should do. But like I have noticed for me at least, I have these I have some big mental tasks. You know what I mean? Like big content piece or big thing that you need like you know it's going to take real mental effort.

0:27It takes me like five minutes of actually being in it to then get a a little bit of a lay of the land to then get into it. But I used to take hours to delay to start the first five minutes. And so my time compression of when I thought I should start doing something and when I started doing it over time it's just compressed to the point where it's like the moment I think that I need to start doing it. Sometimes I just start it because then what happens I get this open loop. And so rather than complete work at like because a lot of people are like I want to complete it at this really nice clean point. Stop halfway through the sentence because it'll drive you mad.

0:57>> That's the zygic effect in full work. Do you know this story? Zyonic. Oh, wow. This is way more than I did. >> That's what you shut up. That's what you're leveraging here. So, um, the zygic effect was a study originally done on servers in restaurants. >> Okay. >> And they realized, you've ever been at a restaurant and a server comes up and stands with their hands behind the back and go, "What would you like tonight, sir?" And you say, "I'll have the lobster roll and a glass of red wine and a blah blah And you're like, "This [ __ ] is not. He hasn't got a pen or a pad of paper. He's crazy." And then they go off and what they realized was servers in restaurants were unbelievably good at being able to recall exactly what a table's order was while that table's order was still open. So, uh, guys in table 16, uh, they want to swap the peas out for a little bit of extra rice and they're doing this thing. As soon as the table was closed,

1:48>> they couldn't remember anything. So, this is an openloop, closed loop system, and it's built into the brain. The brain abhores an open loop. It's the same reason why Netflix cliffhers at the end of every episode guarantee that you'll watch the next one because you can't bear the fact. There's even novels in the dark romance genre that make guarantees that there won't be cliffhers. They make they put it on the front or the back of the book and they say no cliffhers guaranteed which is people have so much distaste for it that it's a selling point that you get the closure at the end of it

2:22>> and finishing halfway through a sentence >> reduces the activation energy required to begin that sentence the next day and it keeps it in your mind too overnight. So, I think yeah, whether you've stumbled on it or whether you knew about it, you've managed to leverage a pretty powerful piece of psychology there. >> Going back to the work thing, uh, another one from you that I absolutely adore. It just takes work. Shitloads and shitloads of work. Every time I try and dress it up or cut a corner, I get brutally reminded the work just needs doing. The work doesn't care who you are. It just cares that it gets done.

3:02I'm actually going to reverse quote David Gogggins on this one, but uh I love this quote that he has which he says, "There's no shortcuts for you, David." Or, "There's no shortcuts for you, Gogggins." I heard him say that and I just love that as a refrain, which is that a lot of people look for a shortcut, but the idea that you say like they're not for you. You don't get to use them. You are immune to shortcuts. I just love it because then it it just further shortcuts the path to the work that needs to get done. And I wrote that tweet on my I don't know 11th run of this presentation that I'm doing because that's a recent one.

3:38>> And so I was it was like 11:00 at night. And so right now I'm working triple shifts which is not common for me. I usually do two not three. Um so for me a normal workday is like I wake up uh I start working at you know 6 or 7 and then I go until about 6ish. So it's like 10 to 12 really concentrated hours work and that I can do six and a half days a week. occasionally take Saturday afternoons off. Um, and it's really just because at that point I c I can't work anymore and my brain stew and then I I get my one half day and then I'm good to go and I'm rearing to kick on, you know, to work on Sundays.

4:09My triple shift is I get I go to dinner and I come back at 7:30 and then I work from 7:30 until 11:30 or 1 or whatever, right? And when I'm putting in triple shifts is when I know I'm like really gassing it. Um, and that's that's when I'm like repeatedly doing 16 17 a day of actual productive work. And I I hear the same thoughts that everyone does, which is like it's not going to matter. Like it's fine. You've like it's good enough.

4:35Like I hate that. Like it it makes me sick to even say that, right? Because the thing that I like David Gogggins, right? He's got like there's no shortcuts for you. I would say the one that I have two that are like my internal ones. One that is probably the most common is I will do what is required.