/sci/ - Science & Math

I've been creating a simple yet revolutionary method on how to become more productive and I'd like to publish it here for you /sci/entists to reflect on.

I call this theory "literate productivity", it involves a year and a half of research on my part about many things but also of this (though mostly the result of my own thinking and finally finding something that actually works in my experience). This theory in the same way as literate programming, involves the use of some text editor that you use along whatever you're working on, as if it were, say, a metalanguage that describes what you're doing and your distractions and that enhances your executive skills, so that this text file becomes the conscious controlling mind that directs your actions. So in this file you give yourself instructions of what to do next or your distracting thoughts, but you never force yourself, rather you treat the self as an other, as a person with its own will that differs from the controlling voice, rather what you want is to create a true interest in yourself, and in order to create a true interest in yourself you must think about whatever you're doing in a way that becomes more personal, more related to your thoughts than just the habits of the past (in something active) or the thoughts author that created it (in something passive). Not only that but also by relating whatever you're doing to other of your thoughts, you're also expanding your awareness on the subject so that you might find certain gaps that you feel the desire to fill and thus there's a passion and a curiosity that would otherwise not exist. Hence, one also orders themselves to investigate the topic at hand, to predict what they'll read, for instance. But now what about procrastination? Well for the case of procrastination you can allow it as long as you delineate the limits of your procrastination through some implementation intention, "I'll procrastinate on watching this youtube video until this video finishes" e.g