Mind Management, Not Time Management

Also by David Kadavy
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1 Mind Management, Not Time Management
	Welcome to the Creative Age
	The End of Time Management
	Time Worship
	When You Save Time, Keep it
	The Two False Assumptions of Time Management
	Beyond Time Management
	Why I Moved to Another Continent
	From a Time Management World to a Mind Management World
2 Creative Sweet Spot
	Divergent/Convergent
	A Microcosm of Creativity
	The Sudden Nature of Insight
	Illuminating the Not-So-Obvious
	Not All Hours Are Equal
	Fire the CEO (of Your Brain)
	Create the Conditions for Collision
	The First-Hour Rule
	The Gift of Groggy
	Flipping the Temporal Switch
	Why Are There Eight Days in a Week?
	Creativity is a Maze, Not a Jogging Path
	The High Interest Rate of Borrowed Time
	Making Up Time
	Quadrupling My Creative Output
3 The Four Stages of Creativity
	Ideas Never Come to a Wearied Brain
	From the Inside Out
	Creativity is Short-Term Memory Management
	Michelangelo Was No God
	The Four Stages of Yesterday
	How Incubation Works
	Respect the Four Stages
4 The Seven Mental States of Creative Work
	The Seven Mental States
	Flavors of Deep Work
	Fuzzy Borders
	Stay in State
	Tools for Thought: The Slippy & The Grippy
	Make The Room Work for You
	Your Own Personal Placebo
5 Creative Cycles
	Coasting With Cycles
	Quit Your Daily Routine. Start Your Weekly Routine.
	What I Learned About Productivity While Working on Google Calendar
	Mental States Throughout the Week
	The Powerful Rule
	Prefrontal Monday
	Prioritize Prioritization With the Weekly Review
	Employ Your Passive Genius
	When There’s Only “Now,” You Won’t Procrastinate
	Week of Want
	Cycles in Cultural Cues
6 Creative Systems
	More Than One Cupcake
	Minimum Creative Dose
	Cycles in Systems
	SOP: Sloppy Operating Procedure
	The Powerful Power of Repetition
	Front Burner/Back Burner
	Creative Constraints
	Fly High with Pilots
	Why Am I Changing My Clothes in a Filthy Laundromat Bathroom?
7 Creating in Chaos
	How to Keep Going When Your Life is a Dumpster Fire
	Organize by Mental State
	Do What You Can With What You Have
	Creative Opportunities
	The Creative Cascade
	Task Triggers
	Creative Simmer
	Nothing Happens for a Reason, but it Does Happen
Epilogue
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Acknowledgements
Notes
About The Author