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Key Takeaways

  1. Hours Worked Can’t Be a Large Determining Factor in Success
  1. Decreasing Hours Worked Is an Easy Way to Increase Productivity
  1. Acquiring Leverage Is How We Put This into Practice
  1. Time Is Fixed, Leverage Is Infinite
  1. Leverage Leads to Freedom
  1. Get Comfortable Living in the Leverage Gap
 

Exercise - Leverage Assessment

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Ask yourself: “What would I need to do to cut my hours of work in half while increasing my output?”

Glossary

Leverage: Anything That Boosts Productivity by Increasing Output Value Relative To Input Cost.
Parkinson’s Law: Work Expands to Fill the Time Available for Its Completion.
Triple D’s: Delegated, Deleted, Deferred.
 
 

Lesson Resources

  1. TED, Dan Gilbert,The Surprising Science of Happiness
  1. Deep Work (Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World), by Cal Newport
  1. Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, and cheaper than yours (and what to do about it), by Salim Ismail
  1. The Breakout Principle: How to Activate the Natural Trigger That Maximizes Creativity, Athletic Performance, Productivity and Personal Well-Being, by Herbert Benson
  1. Sources of Leverage, Some common ways to increase output value relative to your input cost:
    1. Prioritization & Elimination — ID and double down on the highest yield activities.
    2. Rule Based Decision Making — Decide once, apply endlessly.
    3. Learning — The right knowledge enables you to do more with less.
    4. Skill Development — Becoming better allows you to get more output.
    5. Flow — Enables you to work less hours, producing greater output.
    6. People — Ask who?” not “how?”
    7. Systems — Build once, use forever.
    8. Technology — Code once, use repeatedly.
 
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