깨어있기, but 서두르지 말고
[Review] Slow Productivity by Cal
번아웃이라서 이 책을 든건 아니고,
생산성 있는 삶이 궁금해서
그리고 칼포트의 Deep Work를 너무나 감명깊게 읽은 기억을 더듬어
다시 만난 칼포트. 천천히 가는 것이 더 멀리 간다는 지혜를. 상당히 설득력 있게 세 개의 법칙으로 풀었다, '일의 양을 조절해라, 천천히 해라, 그리고 양보단 질이다' 삶을 살아가는 방식이라 일을 풀어가는 방식에 있어 배울게 많다. 실천이 중허다.
Slow productivity, 일견 모순되어 보이는 이 두 단어가 이 책의 많은 것을 이야기 해준다. 효율성과 생산성을 최우선의 가치로 여기는 나의 본능에 '반'하는 선택이,
오히려 내가 원하는 길로 가는 더 빠른 길이라는. 통찰이다.
나만의 페이스를 찾는것, 삶의 리듬을, 일상의 리듬을 의식적으로 찾아가는 것, 바쁘다는 것에 매몰되지 않고(사실 이건 좋지 않은 시도, 그냥 양쪽 눈 가리고 앞만 보고 가는 것이 가장 위험한 상태)
월요일 오전은 meeting ban, 미팅을 잡지 않는다.
규칙성 속에서도 비규칙성을 찾다
우리 인간의 유전자에는 수렵 채집의 피가 흐른다
종일 일하지 않는다, 집중해서 사냥하고 나머지 시간에는 누워서 쉰다. 왜 인간의 고유한 속도에 따라야 하는지에 대한 납득 가는 이유, 그게 우리 몸에 자연스러우니까.
이 그래프가 뇌에 최적화 된 페이스라고 하는데 공감, 여기에 이 책의 일부가 녹아있다.
-새벽 1시간- 뉴스, 책 / 오전에 회사 가자마자 2시간 최고 집중 / 오후에 미팅 & 인형알 눈 붙이는 일 / 퇴근 2시간 전 다시 막판 스퍼트 / 운동해서 하루 흐름 끊고, 다시 1시간 집중 - 경제, 책 / 그리고 멍때리다 자기.
2주일에 한번은
고즈넉 카페
책 씹기
분기에 한번은 강워도 가서 걷기, 쓰기, 투자 점검하기
근데 중요한 것은 5년 계획. 이게 가끔 부담되지만, 그럼 10년. 무조건 장기로 보고, 동시에 내가 할 수 있는, 최대를 낼 수 있는 것만 받기. 인생의 전략을 가지기.
이게 나의 리듬을 알고, 그때 몰아야 한다는 것. 공감한다.
하루 종일 매일 집중할 수 없다, 그 욕심을 내려 놓는 순간 -내 마음만 편해지는 게 아니라, 더 가치 있는 아웃풋이 나온다는 것.
그래서 저녁에 한번 운동으로 끊어주는 거다,
매일 저녁 요가와 필라테스로
하루의 흐름, 회사에서의 바이브를 끊어준다.
하루에 한번, 일주일에 한번
(일요일은 가능하면 요가 아침, 안되면 고즈넉한 외곽의 스타벅스)
한달에 한번은 꼭 전시회를 간다거나,
나를 꾸준히 메트로놈 같은 흐름이 아니라, 일상에 변주를 의도적으로 넣어줘야 더 생산적이다.
한 분기에 한번 정도는 금/토/일/월 재택을 잡아서 쉬고-강원도, reflect하고 충전하는 시간을 갖기. 하지만 그때 뭘 꼭 해야 한다는 것 보다는, 많이 (바다 & 산) 걷고, 생각하고, 적고. 그러한 리추얼을 만들어보기.
(도망가는 게 아니라) 낯선 곳으로 날 던지는 것.
잊고 살던 걸 다시 끄집어 내니, 이래서 책을 꾸준히 달고 살아야 한다는 거, 아. 계속이 아니라, 의도적으로 아침/어쩌다 빈 시간/저녁 1시간.
내가 밑줄 친 문장들 남겨두기
Underline
Car Newport
Slow Productivity
The Lost Art of Accomplishment without burnout
#1. Do fewer things
McPhee's willingness to put everything else on hold, and just lie on his back, gazing upward toward the sky, thinking hard about how to create something wonderful.
Using visible activity as a crude proxy for actual productivity .. !
Wouldn't it be nice to have a job like that where you didn't have to worry about being productive?
Definition of meaningful and valuable work that doesn't require a frenetic busyness
Why it's critical to the goal of achieving a more sustainable work life.
Allowing you to cultivate your own unique collection of insights and conclusions in response.
It's here, working at a modest writing desk by a window overlooking the road.. 책의 표지와도 닮아있다. 가끔, 저런 바다와 강이나 산이 보이는 오두막 집에서 멍때리고 싶다
#1. strive to reduce your obligations to the point where you can easily imagine accomplishing them with time to spare. Leverage this reduced load to more fully embrace and advance the small number of projects that matter most.
We don't need science to convince us of something that we've all experience directly: our brains work better when we are not rushing.
...focusing intensely on a small number of tasks, waiting to finish each before bringing on something new, is objectively a much better way to use our brains to produce valuable output.
I am actively irresponsible. I tell everybody I don't do anything.
Maintain clarity and control over your schedule, and deploy it to keep your workload reasonable.
Real progress accrues, while anxiety is subdued. This pace might seem slow in the moment, but zooming out to consider the results that eventually accrue over many months reveals the narrowness of this concern.
Insisted on a rigid routine to protect her writing from the distractions of her frequent visitors... 오전엔 팀즈와 이메일, 핸드폰 다 꺼두고 집중하기, undisturbed time slot
'a world without email'
Happy to help! Grab me during one of my upcoming office hours and we'll figure out the details.
With intention and determination.
Structured pull strategy, the total number of projects underway in the tech development group fell by almost 50%, while the rate at which projects were completed notably increased
Intake procedure example (흐름과 로직과 프레임을 기억하기)
I wanted to follow up on our conversation from earlier this morning and confirm that I'll take charge of updating the client section of our website (1). What I'll need from you before getting started is a list of what elements you think the new section needs (or a link to another company's site that you think does it right) (2). At the moment, I have eleven other projects queued up ahead of this (3). Based on my commitments to these existing projects, my best guess is that I'll be able to get to this in roughly four weeks after I get the needed information from you (4). I will, of course, update you if this estimate changes.
-Hee
#2. Work at a natural pace
Book - the scientists : A history of Science told through the lives of its greatest inventors
Her 1896 countryside vacation was far from her mind when Marie Curie took the stage
They were interested in what they produced over the course of their lifetimes, not in any particular short-term stretch.
Once there, he would take long walks in the hills and enjoy sleeping in a room…
Yet he still managed to change the course of human intellectual history.
Principle #2 - don't rush your most important work. Allow it instead to unfold along a sustainable timeline, with variations in intensity, in setting conducive to brilliance.
With something like fishing, there are spikes, ups and downs.. Only a small percent of their time is spent actually fishing.
Pseudo-productivity, which used visible activity as a proxy for usefulness
It's less clear that this unvarying intensity if equally as unavoidable in knowledge work.
Transform the pace of your work into something much more, for lack of a better word, human.
Allow the creative development of his play to unfold slowly in the seven years that followed its initial performance
Make a five year plan
He did keep returning to it, again, and again until it developed into something remarkable ... this is GRIT
Every time you add a meeting to your calendar for a given day, find an equal amount of time that day to protect
How Miranda would take long, aimless walks with his dog..
Forgive yourself. Then ask, "What's next?" The key to meaningful work is in the decision to keep returning to the efforts you find important. Not in getting everything right every time.
Seasonality was deeply integrated into the human experience.
You'll more easily come up with numerous additional ideas on your own for injecting some much-needed variety into your pace
Monday represents only 20% of your available time, you can usually implement a meeting ban of this type without feeling like you are excessive unavailable
The key observation here is that even a modest schedule of weekday escapes can be sufficient to diminish the exhaustion of an otherwise metronome-regular routine.
The more hardness you face, the more fun you will enjoy soon after.
Taking care in your choice of physical spaces and rituals… in identifying your own personalized version of Mary Oliver's long walks through the woods.
What counted was their disconnection from the familiar.
-Create more poetic environments for your work…strange is powerful, even if it's ugly.
#3. Obsess over quality of what you produce, even if this means missing opportunities in the short term. Leverage the value of these results to gain more and more freedom in your efforts over the long term.
when you concentrate your attention on producing your best possible work, a more humane slowness becomes inevitable.
Quality demands that you slow down.
The decision to trade complexity for quality worked.
It's only by actually going through a volume of work that you're actually going to catch up and close that gap, and the work you're making will be as good as your ambitions.
He worked on the manuscript early in the morning and in between meetings and court hearings.
