I think there are combined relatively precise scientific findings with authors personal views and experience - thats not necessary for the point or productivity, but I would like it declared. Meditate: By practicing mindfulness meditation, you carve neural pathways to better process stimuli in your present environment, making you more calm and deliberate. What Kadavy offers is a unique approach, catered to a specific kind of work, that he has tried and tested over the years. The side benefits of doing this successfully are that resisting the urge to heed distractions helps strengthen your prefrontal cortex, and that once you’re actually 10 minutes into working on your task, it’s easier to continue working on it. Mind management is very interesting and the thoughts on it in this book are similar to ones I’ve developed over the years.

Reviewing my calendar for available time on when to work on this project, I declare to myself that I will spend an hour at 4:00 PM on a Monday afternoon, because that is the time I have at work.I understand how the author perfected his own creativity system, and there are some useful nuggets there, but is it something applicable to every life?

In "Mind Management Not Time Management," David Kadavy talks about how we can be more productive by managing our mental energy instead of just focusing on managing our time. I’m no GTD expert, and I think GTD needs to be modified for each, but I think he’s talking about a Tickler File, not an inbox. I have been thinking and writing a lot about Creativity Systems, so I could be guilty of fitting his arguments to my mental model, but it is encouraging to me.

They can be cultivated by environment and rhythms, but for each of us they are not all available all the time. But I didn't plan that a co-worker would identify a problem that they wanted my help to solve, requiring 35 minutes of listening intently and talking through various dimensions of the problem.