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You have the TIME. Do you have the ENERGY?

You’ve done everything you can to save time. Every productivity tip, every “life hack,” every time management technique.

But the more time you save, the less time you have. The more overwhelmed, stressed, exhausted you feel.

“Time management” is squeezing blood from a stone.

Introducing a new approach to productivity. Instead of struggling to get more out of your time, start effortlessly getting more out of your mind.

In Mind Management, Not Time Management, best-selling author David Kadavy shares the fruits of his decade-long deep dive into how to truly be productive in a constantly changing world.

Quit your daily routine. Use the hidden patterns all around you as launchpads to skyrocket your productivity.
Do in only five minutes what used to take all day. Let your “passive genius” do your best thinking when you’re not even thinking.
“Writer’s block” is a myth. Learn a timeless lesson from the 19th century’s most underrated scientist.
Wield all of the power of technology, with none of the distractions. An obscure but inexpensive gadget may be the shortcut to your superpowers.
Keep going, even when chaos strikes. Tap into the unexpected to find your next Big Idea.

Mind Management, Not Time Management isn’t your typical productivity book. It’s a gripping page-turner chronicling Kadavy’s global search for the keys to unlock the future of productivity.

You’ll learn faster, make better decisions, and turn your best ideas into reality. Buy it today.

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Oct. 15 2020
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kadavy, Inc. (Oct. 15 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 262 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0578733692
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0578733692
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 336 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13.97 x 1.68 x 21.59 cm

Best Sellers Rank: #86,075 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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David Kadavy is a bestselling author whose books help people be productive when creativity matters. He was design advisor for behavioral scientist Dan Ariely’s productivity app, Timeful, where David’s “mind management” principles were applied to features now used by millions – in Google Calendar. He lives in Medellín, Colombia. Follow him on Twitter or Instagram at @kadavy.

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A lot of thoughts and quotes of others

Reviewed in Canada on March 1, 2021

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It's like a committee of hamsters looking up stuff on the internet and writing a self-published book. Oh and a lot of stuff about himself. I wanted to like this book but it was just plain annoying.

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Jonas A

Another gem from Kadavy

Reviewed in Canada on February 9, 2021

If you read the heart to start you will love this. I'm particularly fond of how creative cycles are explained and the notion of shifting daily routines to weekly or otherwise has proven extremely powerful. If you're interested in gaining more time (and control) over your life then there is no better place to start than your mind - and this guide will show you the way.

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DR P J MARLES

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 3, 2022

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This book is filled with an incredible amount of actionable information. I usually look for one takeaway point when I read a book. This book has too many to list. Ideal for anyone who is trying to earn a living through creativity.

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Waste of money

Reviewed in Germany on February 12, 2022

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The author is under a time crunch to write this book so he travels to Colombia to do it (unrealistic for normal people to get up and go) and compares Medellin to his life in Chicago whilst sprinkling it with quotes and illustrations. I am forcing myself to read the rest only because I spent so much money on it, hoping there will be some kind of advice in the 2nd half of the story (yes its more of an entertaining story than a self-help book)

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Sharad Mittal

good book with some original ideas

Reviewed in India on March 18, 2022

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I liked how the author breaks down the creative cycles through his own experiences, there was some repetitions of the ideas in the last few chapters though but still leaves you with some new ideas to be more productive in your creative work. I would recommend this book to anyone who have to context switch their work a lot and always have a very busy calendar. This book will help you to work better as not every time slot is not the same :)

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RSR MURTHY

Must read for organising creative work

Reviewed in India on October 22, 2021

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I copiously drew from the wisdom and advise in the book. In my ongoing maiden attempt to write a book , I found the daily read motivating and refreshing. It was as though the content was meant for me.I strongly recommend the book to all those engaged in creative pursuits, like writing a book , especially for those who are in the beginning stages.

Craig Roberts

Greatly increase your creative quality and quantity by reading and DOING this book.

Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2020

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This is one of those books I will read again and again. And I'm DOING the book, not just reading it. It is not just information, but ways to renovate and restructure how we think about managing our lives to do the creative work better and with much less frustration. As David says, it is about managing our MINDS, not (just) our Time.

As I practice this stuff, I can go back and get more to work on, and I keep making progress. You can read it and check another self improvement or productivity book off your list, but I think there is enough here that a lot of the other stuff out there fits with this and supports it; or, maybe better said, this book gives us a foundation to build on, taking anything and everything we might have already known to the next level, or even the level above that, if we DO what David has given us.

The Four Stages of Creativity: Preparation, Incubation, Illumination, and Verification.

Just knowing what these are is very helpful for people who create (pretty much all of us), but David helps us see that we can't just call up these on demand; our minds need to be in the right state for them. We can build our lives, or at least our work or creative lives, around respecting these four stages by understanding the Seven Mental States of Creative Work, and matching what stage we want to be in with our mental state, or use our mental state to pursue the appropriate stage.

"Even time management is valuable, up to a point. But mind management picks up where all these methods leave off. Time management optimizes the resource of time. Mind management optimizes the resource of creative energy." This is a promise of the book, and I believe it delivers, if we are willing to DO it.

David Kadavy knows of many of the great books and tools for productivity out there. In fact, he has interviewed some of their creators on his podcast.

I liked this book a lot, not only because he takes things like the wonderful Getting Things Done and Atomic Habits and Deep Work and recent neurobiology to the next level, but he also weaves the wisdom of great creators together with his own hard won lessons on what works and what doesn't.

Jason Fried, Bill Gates, Stephen King, Steve Jobs, George Carlin, Elizabeth Bishop, Alice Walker, Marian Anderson, Maya Angelou, John Konious, Robert Levine, Meridith Monk, Lillian Hellman, Ari Meisel, David Rock, Seth Godin, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, and David Allen, to name some of the people who are woven into this in big or little ways, not just as cute quotes on the margins, but as signposts along the way to a life where creativity increases and becomes easier because we learn to structure our lives around the way our mind works, rather than pounding ourselves into arbitrary industrialized notions of productivity and management and wasting a great deal of mental energy on distractions or trying to do something when we are not in the right mental state for it.

The Seven Mental States of Creative Work: Starting with the ideas from Deep Work, but realizing there were different flavors, David has done the experimentation and verification in his own life, confirming what he was finding with other creators and teachers and scientists along the way, and given us the fruit, that we can apply in our own lives, experimenting and tweaking as he encourages us.

Prioritize, Explore, Research, Generate, Polish, Administrate, and Recharge are the Seven Mental States.

They are all necessary, and they are all different. They can be cultivated by environment and rhythms, but for each of us they are not all available all the time. Once we find out what these states are for us, and how they line up with the Four Stages of Creativity, we are well on our way to being both more creative and more at peace with how we are ordering our lives because a lot of the stress has been removed.

A few of the other things David helps us with in this book: Creative Cycles, Creative Systems, our Creative Sweet Spot, nourishing our interior Passive Genius, and other useful tools and paragigms that all work together.

Also, what happens when life throws you for a loop, and then another loop, and then you find out that those two loops were small compared to the next loop life throws you? David's been there, done that. All of the stuff in this book can go with you on that journey if you are willing to learn it and apply it. This is because you have learned to harness the power of your own mind, and work with it as you face whatever life throws at you.

I don't usually write reviews. But I think this is an important book. You may need to do a little (or a lot) of your own thinking and experimenting to get all the benefits this book offers, but the meat (or, insert your favorite plant-based protein) is there, if you are willing to eat it and digest it.

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