Ron Friedman

And it's why so many people prefer to work from home.

It's because most offices have become an attentional war zone.

And so if you're looking to lift up your team's performance, create a focus space.

Don't worry about the ping pong tables.

I walk my dogs and I listen to podcasts like this one.

And I find that that, yeah, I find that it really helps focus my attention on the big ideas instead before I get lost in the minutia.

The workday?

Well, here's a tip that I think some people might benefit from.

So I actually used to teach productivity courses.

And one of my favorite tips was to always make up your to-do list the day before.

But don't worry about the order in which you're going to do things.

Just kind of do a –

an information dump of all the things that are on the top of your mind.

And once you've written that list, I find it's much easier to disconnect.

But then the first thing I do after breakfast is I'll sort the list in terms of what's most important to least important.

And I use a question that helps orient me to what's most important to me.

So for example,

Over the last few months, I've been really focused on super teams.

And so the question I might ask is, how important is this item to helping me get this book out in front of the most number of people?

And so I'll sort it that way.