[extropy-chat] Personal effectiveness

[Adrian Tymes]

--- JDP <jacques at dtext.com> wrote:
> (You're really master of the art when you
> can add to all
> this a tricky conversation with a potential sexual
> partner that you
> have just met, or with an intellectually
> sophisticated person arguing
> about some novel philosophical point -- and if the
> same person is
> both, then that's really spectacular.)

My family does the second out of habit: cooking is a
survival skill (I'm actually the least talented out
of my immediate family), plus we discuss various
brainstorms in idle moments.  "Potential sexual
partner" does not apply, of course, except between the
family members married to each other - but bringing
the children up to be comfortable doing this has lead
to, well, us being able to do it.

> Which brings us back to time-management,
> prioritizing, and
> synchronization, all integral to personal
> effectiveness.

<nods>  Recently, I've been experimenting with
cramming more things into my schedule.  For the first
time in a long while, I've found the limits of how
much I can do at once.  (I'm *trying* to back away
from said limits now, to add emergency capacity - but,
of course, the holiday season adds in its own extra
tasks.)