Productivity

Index

• 80/20 law 36–7

• ‘acceptance and commitment’ 66
• accountability 16
• activist learning style 20, 21
• adaptability 16
• amygdala 52–3
• anxiety 9–10, 63, 64, 69
  • procrastination and 83
• apathy 63
• ‘as If’ strategy 67–9, 77, 83

• Barry, Dave 97
• batching tasks 46–7, 50, 57–8
• Baumeister, Dr Roy 73
• Beyonce 11
• brain 52–3
• Brandstätter, Veronika 37
• burnout, avoiding 113

• calmness 17
• Carroll, Lewis: Alice in Wonderland 28
• cerebral blood flow (CBF) 111
• clarity 100
• closure 112
• coffee run 109–10
• commitment 8, 9–10, 23
• communication 15, 32–3, 47
• compromise 101
• confidence 5
• conscientiousness 17
• ‘constructive procrastination’ 39
• conversation, one‐to‐one, vs meetings 98
• cooperativeness 17
• creativity 17, 45–6
• Currey, Mason 45
• cut‐off time, setting 113