Pocket is one of my absolute favorite tools.
When you find an article online that you love or one that you want to save for reading later, all you have to do is click the handy "Save to Pocket" button and Pocket automatically adds it to your account for safe keeping.
22 million users have saved more than 2 billion articles to the platform. In fact, it's where I save all of my favorite ideas for this newsletter, for example.
Check Pocket out here.
All of that to say that it's a big deal if one of your articles is "one of the most saved, read, and shared stories on Pocket."
The article is by James Clear and it's titled, The Physics of Productivity: Newton’s Laws of Getting Stuff Done. If you haven't checked out Clear's work in the past, I highly recommend doing so. It's quite binge-able.
The concept he tackles is surprisingly easy, yet so many of us fail to actually do it:
Objects at rest tend to stay at rest.
We all suffer from procrastination at one point or another - most of us daily (Me? Hourly)
But what we don't realize is that procrastination is easy to overcome. In fact, Sir Isaac Newton might have discovered the keys to productivity in 1687 without ever realizing what he had stumbled upon.
According to Clear, there are three things we can all learn from Newton about being our most productive selves:
- Objects in motion tend to stay in motion
- It's not just about working hard, it's also about working on the right things
- Your productivity is a balance of opposing forces
Congrats! You're already in motion by reading this newsletter ;) Now get out there and make something happen!
Until next Friday, Thinkers.
- Brian
P.S. Choose a job not for how much you’ll earn or the status that you’ll gain. Choose a job for how much you’ll learn.
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