creativity

One of the big pushes in the personal productivity movement is the strict approach to prioritization. Eliminate everything that is not essential to your progress and focus on those one or two things you need to accomplish here and now. A narrow perspective will help you accelerate your project and will result in you To Do list becoming a Have Done list with great rapidity. This seems like solid enough advice, except it is born from a mindset that prizes productivity over creativity and action over reflection.

You may recall that several weeks ago I led a chat called Balancing Perceptive and Analytical Thinking in Innovation, in which we looked at @JonahLehrer's How We Decide to see what he could illuminate for us about thinking innovatively.