Productivity Hack for those who do SUPER BORING stuff and/or for the sales guys @azriel @niles you ever done this?
This may be unique to my role but there’s a lot of email these days…
John Wick
- I’m taking over for another closer who had a lot of email convos ongoing
- A lot of the current client upgrades are done through email with a phone call to close
- 2 call close process where I email a summary and VSL after the first call
- Had almost 25 follow ups to do, thought emailing each of them to see who responded was more effective than an instant call
So yesterday I ended up doing about 5 hours straight of email sending… thanks to micro-doses of adderal for enhanced focus but that’s besides the point…
I was so fucking BORED doing it that I kept on procrastinating it.
Then I remember one of the best thing I learned from Steven Kotler’s course on Flow States
“procrastination is a POSITIVE ADAPTATION if looked at from the lens of flow. Our brains are so wired for flow that if a task is too easy, we’ll create self-imposed difficulties to make it harder… like doing an essay we had 8 weeks to complete in one night… to add importance, risk, urgency, and increased challenge, all of which are drivers of flow.”
So when I saw the email problem from a “This is a boring task let me free up some brain power” and started watching the John Wick movies (#3 & #4) I all of a sudden got into a deep flow state doing the emails and follow up yesterday… recalibrated the event to make it more mentally stimulating.