I used the method described in this chapter for years. I use the method for preparing lectures. I also used the method to write this book.
So, as a concrete example here, I show you some pieces for the chapter.
Rough translation of each piece for English readers is as follow. The broken grammar is intentional because I didn’t care about grammatical correctness when I made the real Japanese pieces.):
- Method to organize thought
- thought won’t be organized:
- too much?
- too less?
- report
- can’t write
- Do I need to create new knowledge?→(6)
- But organizing also build new pyramid in brain
- Too many tasks, confusing
- → related to chapter 2
- GTD = write out method
- Too much? Too less?
- Try to write 5 minutes
- First try to write 100 pieces
- write out method
- First write everything come up with
- Try to write 100 pieces
- measurable goal
- interrupt-able
- →dupulication is OK
- level is not aligned first they come out
- don’t mind dupulication, together after
- can write only less → lack of material to think
- write out → small number → evidence of lack
- back to chapter 4 and read 3 books roughly
You can see that there are many duplications in the content.
I made pieces once when I planed the contents of this book. It was in May 2016. I wrote “first try to write 100 pieces” because I usually do that.
After that, I left those pieces for chapter 5 aside and wrote the previous chapters. When I was writing the way to motivate yourself in Chapter 2, I noticed that it is a too big task for readers who are unfamiliar with the “to write all out” method. They can not predict how long the task takes. ((2.3.1) Task is too big)
In Chapter 2 (2.3.2) Timeboxing, I explained the method to motivate yourself by making a task smaller, breaking it by time.
As a concrete application of timeboxing, I add a new piece “try to write 5 minutes” that keeps the first step small. And then I re-arranged those pieces, and convert them into sentences. It was August 2017.