BN1978

I respect your practice dedication. I am curious - what are the benefits you get from doing it everyday?

Thank you for clarification. I also like your comparison with NBA and A-actors. I am Mensa member which means my IQ is in top 2% of the general population of my country. Because of the membership and my active involvement, I know a lot of people with high IQ. And my conclusion is that IQ doesn't mean too much. Yes, I think that some of them are very smart, but not genius level smart. Not even close. In my opinion, the usefulness of the IQ metric is very questionable.

> Someone could be a 4th standard deviation genius

What does this mean? I am not familiar with that. Is that related with IQ or some other metrics?

I googled 4th standard deviation, and it pointed me to Wikipedia article https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/68%E2%80%9395%E2%80%9399.7_rul... Reading that article, I am still not sure what "4th standard deviation genius" means - does that mean "1 in 15787" of people based on some intelligence metrics?

I am "guilty" of that sometimes. And I am proud for that. For me, there are two kinds of fun: just fun and fun with some added value. Being active on the facebook, playing computer games, watching TV series is just fun. Working on my hobbies (playing an instrument, learning new stuff, working on projects I like...) is fun with added value. If I don't organize my leisure time to much time is spent on the just fun category. Yes, it is fun, but at the end of the day, I don't feel as happy and fulfilled as when I am working on fun + value category.

> I'm not going to focus on anything else but this for the next 30min/1hr

Time boxing is also very helpful to me. Very useful tool. It helps me to focus and not to get overwhelmed with the complexity of the task or disturbed by other items on my to-do list. To work on something for 15 or 30 minutes is achievable even for tasks I feel resistance to. And often, after this 15-30 minutes, it is much easier to continue working on it.

The article has a right to its opinion. I don't agree with all in the article. In the real life, most of the time, the truth isn't black or white. Is improving my organization/time-management system really kind of procrastination? Sometimes it is, sometimes it isn't. Again, it depends.

I don't want to be a slave to my to-do list (my way of dealing with time-management). OTOH, if I don't have a to-do list, in the long run, I am also not happy, and that negatively influence the quality of my life. I try to find a balance between the two. Sometimes I am successful in that, and sometimes I am not. And BTW, I am great Trello fan.

I like your system for emails. You inspired me to do add to my Trello list: "Try ryandrake system for my inbox."