ACE 002: Win by panic: The magic of urgency




ACE Productivity show

Summary: In this episode, I talk about one of my favorite tactics for making things happen efficiently: Using urgency to force yourself to perform faster and better. One of my first and most popular blog posts here already covers this topic, but I kind of focused on different areas here. If you want to see the original post, you can find it here. Under the foundational principle of the utility of urgency, I cover these three subtopics: Urgency causes us to value our time more. You can use the education from moments of urgency to tell yourself how to perform more efficiently at other times. You can manufacture urgency to cause yourself to perform better even when things otherwise wouldn't be urgent. Special thanks Special credit and many thanks are owed to Benjamin Krumwiede and Abigail Gschwend for their performance of Ravel as my podcast’s theme music. I’m also grateful to Josh Rodriguez for volunteering to give me a hand in recording the music (during an extremely busy week of finals! I don’t know how he does it). I also can’t thank Pat Flynn enough for the world of difference he has made for everything I do online. Not only is he an enormous inspiration for me, but his podcasting tutorial is what got me up and running.