Getting Things Done

“David Allen, who created the most legendary productivity process of all time, GTD, right? Getting things done.”

“And this is why I highly recommend that people become totally obsessed with personal development and productivity and David Allen's Getting Things Done and James Clear's Atomic Habits and Morgan Housel's Psychology of Money and The Subtle Art of Not Giving a … for like probably between three and six years.”

“You do what's called a next action from – getting things done, David Allen's productivity strategy. People want a really – really great productivity strategy. Getting things done by David Allen is – is about as good as you can get.”

“apparently there's there's a number of books there are all systematic programs of how you clean your house it's like if you took David Allen's getting things done framework for productivity but applies it to housework”

“so you mentioned it earlier on the the first edition of your book getting things done came out 2001 nearly 20 years ago”

“the updated version of getting things done which was done in 2015 I think”

“David Allen's getting things done his two-minute rule I'm a pretty big fan of that”

“Like, great book Getting Things Done. Even if you don't use the system, the book is really good.”

“So in I've always invested a lot like the first book I read on this topic was getting things done um by Alan, which is a pretty I think it's also a section in your in your book by the way.”

“I've mostly use a method called getting things done. Uh which is not rocket science fairly simple. Um and then I've used the same tool which is called things for the past 15 years.”

“well that'd be the debit getting things done calm you'll see an overview of what we've created as a company right now”

“and that's an idea that that comes from at least in terms of my awareness comes from getting things done the book by David Allen”

“David Allen's getting things done his two-minute rule”

“you get to 2004 David Allen's getting things done and now it's how do we even find like some moments of zen-like Peace among the onslaught”

“then we get to the 2000s and this where the shift happens so the the big book of the early 2000s is David Allen getting things done being on the show he's a modern wisdom alumni he's a legend exactly now if you go back and you read getting things done”

“Yeah, you go back and read David Allen, what you get, what's his goal? Occasional moments of Zen-like peace, among the mind, like there's nothing to turn you into a processing machine and a survival process you, right?”

“by the early 2000s you're starting to see the pushback by getting things done”

“People that are listening will probably be familiar with Getting Things Done. Oh, have you Have you had David on the show? David's been on the show. Uh He's great. He's absolutely fantastic. He was the one that introduced me to a vertical bookcase. So he's got in his office He's got a vertical bookcase um which has a copy”

“I tried looking into Getting Things Done, which is a more temporary kind of popular thing and thought it was quite interesting and good, but I didn't buy into it and I felt like you needed to really buy into it to make that work.”

“A friend way back in the day gave me this book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. And most people skim it and they're like, yeah, okay. I have to-do list and triggers and actions and they kind of subscribe to it.”

“they were pomodoroing 25 minutes on and five minutes after getting things done yes yeah they were David allening their way through the world”

“When we owned TeuxDeux, there was this one guy, an author, I think he wrote a book Getting Things Done. What's it called? Uh GTD. Yeah. David Allen.”

“i had david allen the author of getting things done and grandfather i guess of the modern productivity movement on a couple of months ago and i asked him i was like you know you do you tell me do you use omnifocus or do you use things three or have you got like a what's you”

“I think definitely when you if you read David Allen's getting things done it it almost becomes laborious to convert”

“and that's that's for anyone who's read getting things done that is just how david allen explained it 30 years ago whenever the book was read it's only we've just come across it now”

“and then the same for things like the deep workbook or digital minimalism or getting things done like stuff like that is like an entire like operating manual for us”

“it's designed for gtd getting things done and if you've been if you've done what chris said and has written to listen to all the episodes leading up to this you'd have heard david allen talk about getting things done and why”

“I found it more difficult to relate David Allen's getting things done to nowadays because he's talking about pages and filer faxes and stuff”

“so find the one that I'm going to use is a tactic called working from zero now I think I'm right in saying that this is David Allen's getting things done right I think that's where it comes from”

“Now I think I'm right in saying that this is David Allen's getting things done Right I think that's where it comes from”

“so that's David Allen's getting things done right”