The document describes effective productivity strategies, emphasizing the importance of rest, with optimal work intervals of 90 minutes followed by short breaks. It highlights the drawbacks of multitasking, which can increase stress and reduce cognitive performance, and suggests techniques to overcome procrastination. Connecting with nature and using attention restoration tactics can enhance creativity and focus.

1. Get More Rest
Than You Think
You Should

2. Tiredness
is productivity’s and creativity’s worst enemy

3. Most successful people work in intervals
90 minutes working and 15-30 minutes resting

4. You can use your smartphone or calendar
■ Set the 90 minute work periods
■ 30 minute, longer rest periods
■ 15 minute shorter rest periods

5. 10% of the most productive
workers worked for 52 minutes
and rested for 17
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6. Most successful people work in intervals
90 minutes working and 15-30 minutes resting

7. The More
We RestThe more productive we get and it actually
takes us less time to complete certain tasks.

8. First complete a task
Then take a break depending how long you worked on that
task

9. Stress leads to binary thinking
we see solutions to problems only as a “yes or no” or “this or that”

10. How can you make
your breaks the
most effective?

11. Relieving your mind and body
■ Back, hands and neck stretching
■ Take a quick walk outside
■ Take a quick walk around the office
■ Stare at the green color

12. Remember
thisresting will make you more productive and
will reduce the time needed to complete a
given task.

13. Next up
The Power of
Natural Vibrations

14. The Power of
Natural Vibrations

15. Make Your Working Environment
closer to nature

16. The occasional contemplation
of natural scenes…is favorable
to the health and vigor of men
Frederick Law Olmsted

17. A.R.T.
Attention Restoration Theory

18. We can refresh direct attention
by shifting our minds to an effortless form of engagement
e.g. nature

19. Listening to
nature
soundshelps relaxing during breaks

20. Sounds of naturally running water
■ Ocean waves
■ Waterfalls
■ Rain
Reduce muscle tension and lowers the
heart rate

21. BiophiliaHumans seek connections with the rest
of life

22. Connecting
with natureMakes us think more clearly, more resilient,
and come up with creative solutions for
problems.

23. Next up
The Trap of
Multitasking

24. The productivity
costs of
multitasking

25. Our brains are designed to focus
on one thing at a time

26. Human brain uses more
energy to switch from one task
to another than it uses on
working on just one task

27. Two stages of multitasking
■ Goal shifting - I want to do this now
instead of that
■ Rule activation - I am turning on the
rules for that and turning off the rules
for this

28. 40%More time needed to perform difficult tasks
while multitasking

29. Constant task-switching encourages bad
brain habits
■ We keep switching between small
mini-tasks that give us instant
gratification
■ We feel like we're accomplishing a
ton, when we're really not doing much
at all

30. Serious drawbacks of switching between
tasks
■ Increased level of cortisol, the stress
hormone
■ It makes your IQ drop – even by 15
points

31. People are addicted to
information

32. Information-
seeking behavior
Our mind craves relevant information

33. How to multitask if you absolutely have to?
■ Eliminate distractions
■ Work on related tasks
■ Create a routine

34. Remember this
Your brain uses more energy to switch
between tasks than to resolve one, given
task. The time needed to perform difficult or
unfamiliar tasks increases by 40%.

35. How to stop
procrastinating
once and for all

36. Procrastination is a game
Your brain is playing with you

37. Start somewhere… anywhere

38. The beginning is the half of all
Pythagoras

39. Our brain’s habits
■ Envisioning the huge workload of an
upcoming task
■ Focusing on the most difficult parts
■ Coming up with reasons for not doing
something that seems difficult

40. Your brainNeeds a conclusion. If you just start, it will
bring you back to that unfinished task and
let you finish it

41. People tend to remember
better the things they didn’t
finish, rather than things that
have concluded.

42. “Shitty first draft”
approach

43. Shitty first draft
■ Come up with ideas that are far from
being perfect
■ Force your brain to come up with a
conclusion
■ Gather at least a part of the required
data

44. How To Deal With
Unresolved issues

45. Come up with a „to-do list”
■ Instant sensation of time well-used
■ Frees up your intellectual and
emotional resources

46. Procrastination
is a game that your brain is playing with you
and your best strategy to win it is to just
start

47. To Wrap Things Up