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Brick, at the Four-hour Workweek Journal, has an interesting post on the usefulness of capture. I would love to know what you, dear readers, think about this idea and how it might be incorporated into your own system:

Sometimes the basis for positive change in our lives comes from questioning or throwing out conventional assumptions or “rules of thumb”. The 4-Hour Workweek is a great example, where author Timothy Ferriss questions the so-called deferred life plan which we all know: work hard now and defer living your dreams until you retire. I would take the premise of the 4-Hour Workweek even further: the notion that after high school you go to college, after which you work long and hard at your job to get ahead, is really just a socially reinforced mental state, a way of being that can limit your life and cause an apathetic, unfulfilling, and at times tedious, reality.

Premise of Time Management

So let’s start questioning some rules of thumb or so called best practices in the more mundane sphere of things. I think the use of a good time management system would be considered by most as a worthwhile practice. Several schools of thought, books, and systems have been developed to address the issue of time management.

Go read his post and come back here to comment, especially in relation to the previous posts this week.

7 Weeks, 7 Habits
Stigmergy

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