What’s Your Productivity Ratio?
By CHRIS DANILO — This first appeared on my personal blog.
By CHRIS DANILO — This first appeared on my personal blog.
Productivity is about output.
It’s about hunkering down, nose to the grind, and cranking out work.
Productivity increases as you get better at focusing on what’s important and sticking to it.
But to produce new, quality work on a consistent basis, we need to be creative and innovative.
This requires an adaptive and changing world view.
Consistent and high quality output requires consistent, high quality input.
It’s easy to cling to Medium and read every productivity blog post that exists, but is that an excuse?
Do you know yourself well enough to tell if you’re avoiding the hard work?
Everyone has a different input to output ratio.
How much new, valuable information are you consuming vs. how much new valuable information you are producing.
If we follow the the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule), we find that 80% production and 20% consumption might work for most people.
What’s your optimal productivity ratio?
Thanks for reading. Since productivity is about getting as much as you can while spending as little energy as possible, this post has been distilled to it’s most dense form.
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