Debunking the "1,000 hours of practice" myth

Posted by JBfrom
Nov 13, 2011 at 06:04 AM

Yeah, infrequent checking is what Tim Ferriss recommends.

I don’t find it’s a problem. Yes, sometimes stressful things come through. But I have pretty good passive meditation barriers to stress.

And there are benefits. At the initial read, I will just scan and star if it requires real actual work.to answer. That way I know if anything urgent comes up, which allows me to mostly cut off the phone and chat channels, which are more interruptive, and yet I’m still reachable for urgent matters.

As far as stress, I find that it can be eustress, in that it gets the right brain working on the new problem, which you then dump into a scratch file, as a resource for later when you deal with teh problem. The longer I let a problem like this sit, the better my solution tends to be. I don’t like answering difficult emails without the benefit of a percolation period - I think this is a downside of Tim’s methodology, in addition to it forcing you to be reachable by phone or chat interruption.