How do you choose which tasks to do now?

• Intellectual Production of Engineers Table of Contents Digest A portion of the table of contents is cut out and given a new title (front cover).

• This figure is from [(2.2.3) What are the major and minor relationships when there is uncertainty?

• Chapter 2: How to motivate 49

  • 65% of unmotivated people are not able to focus on one task 50
    • Let's first get the big picture to narrow it down 51
    • Getting Things Done: Gathering It All First 51
    • Collect them all and process them afterwards 52
    • How do you choose one task 53
      • Similar to cleaning up a room 53
      • First, build a base 54
      • Too many tasks 54
  • Prioritization" is a difficult task in itself 55
    • Sorting computation 55 - Column: Urgency Decomposition Theory 55
    • Cannot compare large and small without one dimension 56
    • What is the magnitude of the uncertainty? 57 - Trade-off between exploration and exploitation 59 - When in doubt, be optimistic. 59 - Risk, value and priorities 61
    • Prioritize important matters 62
      • Notified" is not "urgent. "64
      • Values are verbalized bottom-up 64
        • Column: 7 Habits 65
    • Don't try to set priorities now 66

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