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--- tags: - wiki - productivity - focus - execution - habits - motivation title: Focus & Productivity type: wiki-compilation visibility: public --- # Focus & Productivity Jeremy Nixon's compiled knowledge on attention, focus, execution, work ethic, habits, and personal systems. Synthesized from 40+ raw entries. --- ## Attention & Focus The ability to direct and sustain attention is a foundational skill. Jeremy studied it systematically: ### Core Frameworks - [[your-brain-at-work]] -- David Rock's neuroscience of focus - [[golemans-focus]] -- Daniel Goleman on attention types - [[deep-work]] -- Cal Newport's deep work framework - [[attention-focus-literature]] -- Comprehensive literature review - [[attention-focus]] -- Hub page for all focus material ### Practical Focus Methods - [[17-02-09-learning-how-to-focus]] -- Learning focus as a skill - [[17-07-30-expanding-attention-span]] -- Expanding what you can attend to - [[19-10-12-ways-to-improve-focus]] -- Actionable focus improvements - [[17-08-02-how-to-silence-the-chatter]] -- Quieting mental noise ## Execution & Work Ethic - [[compressing-execution]] -- The compressed guide to getting things done - [[18-01-04-building-a-work-ethic]] -- How to develop the capacity for sustained work - [[relentlessness]] -- On relentless pursuit of goals - [[relentless]] -- Tim Grover's framework (book notes) - [[grover]] -- More on Grover's approach - [[17-07-05-ways-to-increase-action-bias]] -- Moving from thinking to doing - [[17-08-25-ways-to-induce-action-bias-in-a-community]] -- Creating action-oriented groups - [[17-10-16-accomplishing-arbitrary-deadlines]] -- Hitting deadlines ## Motivation & Energy - [[motivation]] -- Core document on motivation - [[motivation-idea-space]] -- The full space of motivational approaches - [[forces-motivating-greatness]] -- What drives great achievement - [[06-19-14-energy]] -- On managing energy - [[18-02-18-how-to-become-obsessed]] -- Cultivating productive obsession - [[19-06-24-ways-to-induce-hypomania]] -- Inducing states of high energy and creativity - [[20-07-20-reward-system-options]] -- Different approaches to reward systems ## Productivity Systems - [[productivity-systems]] -- Overview of productivity systems - [[19-06-06-10-systems-worth-having]] -- The 10 most valuable personal systems - [[meta-commitments]] -- High-level commitments that drive daily behavior - [[lifescore]] -- Quantified self-assessment system - [[daily-habits-decision-making]] -- Daily habit framework - [[18-08-03-how-to-use-my-time-more-effectively]] -- Time optimization - [[20-03-10-questions-to-ask-regularly-life-reframes]] -- Regular self-check questions ## Habits - [[daily-habits-decision-making]] -- Core daily habits - [[15-07-17-intellectual-habitslifestyle]] -- Intellectual lifestyle habits - [[20-01-06-accountability-schemes]] -- Accountability systems - [[20-01-06-becoming-autocatalytic]] -- Becoming self-sustaining in productivity ## Systems & Life Design - [[my-life]] -- Jeremy's life system overview - [[ferris]] -- Tim Ferriss-style lifestyle design - [[lifestyle-design]] -- Broader lifestyle design thoughts - [[experiments-list]] -- Personal experiments to run - [[15-02-19-experiments-i-should-be-doing]] -- Experiments backlog - [[20-03-09-potential-life-updates]] -- Life changes worth making - [[20-02-21-my-lifestyle-creep]] -- Tracking lifestyle inflation ## Overcoming Obstacles - [[20-01-07-overcoming-anxiety]] -- Dealing with anxiety - [[18-10-12-how-to-overcome-approach-conversation-anxiety-at-brain]] -- Social anxiety specifically - [[19-09-14-traps-to-avoid]] -- Common traps - [[17-09-25-additional-weakness]] -- Understanding personal weaknesses - [[17-09-26-additional-weakness-experiments]] -- Experimenting with addressing weaknesses - [[20-04-12-ways-in-which-people-tend-to-be-asleep]] -- Common forms of unconsciousness - [[18-11-02-transcendent-self-awareness]] -- Getting beyond the ego - [[18-02-04-destroying-the-ego]] -- Ego dissolution as a tool ## Health & Longevity - [[17-09-17-longevity-interventions]] -- Interventions for living longer - [[19-06-15-obviously-correct-diet-interventions]] -- Diet interventions with clear evidence - [[20-07-05-brain-healthy-foods-jeremy-doesnt-hate]] -- Brain-healthy foods that are actually palatable - [[18-08-12-sharable-bucket-list]] -- Life goals and experiences