Seth's Blog : Busy is a choice, productive is a skill
Busy is a choice, productive is a skill
Anyone can be busy. All you need to do to feel busy is to try to get two things done at once–or seek to beat a deadline that is stressing you out.
Productivity, on the other hand, has little to do with busy. Productivity requires bringing soft skills (real skills) to the table in service of the generous work you seek to do. Productivity is learned. And productivity takes guts.
We just wrapped up the most recent session of the altMBA, and I was thrilled to see the energy and insight each contributor brought to the workshop. The feedback from our thousands of graduates doesn’t vary by country, by profession, by age or by the scale of their project. People are discovering that once they get out of their own way, they can get a huge amount done.
Once you see what’s possible, it’s amazing how much you can contribute.
Learning is not the same as education, and busy is not the same as productive.
Today is the last day to apply for the next session of the altMBA. I hope you’ll check it out.
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