Mental models for…

10 mental models for productivity & focus

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Productivity isn't about doing more — it's about where your time and attention actually go. These ideas help you find the leverage and protect your focus.

  1. Work expands to fill the time available

  2. Most results come from a few causes — the 80/20 rule

  3. Urgent isn't the same as important

  4. Deep focus is becoming rare — and rare is valuable

  5. Unfinished tasks keep tugging at your attention

  6. Hofstadter's law: it always takes longer, even when you know this law

  7. The planning fallacy: why everything takes longer than you think

  8. Decision fatigue: every choice drains the same limited tank

  9. Do less, but better — the disciplined pursuit of essential

  10. Kaizen: tiny continuous improvements beat big leaps

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