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Diminishing Returns

The law of diminishing returns describes a vicious cycle that causes us to work less efficiently the more time we spend on the job. It’s just not healthy to work a 60 or 80-hour week on a regular basis. Our bodies and minds aren’t built that way.

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  • We feel overwhelmed. We have too much work and there’s a major deadline looming.

  • We work 60 or 80-hour weeks, instead of 40-hour weeks.

  • We hit our physical and mental limits. Cognitive exhaustion sets in.

  • Because it’s harder to think, tasks start taking longer.

  • This causes stress, which makes it even harder to focus.

  • The work starts taking even longer.

  • Small distractions slow us down even more than usual.

  • A lot of hours are wasted due to diminishing returns.

SOLUTIONS

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Set a Bandwidth Limit - a hard number of things to do.

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Regularly revise your Bandwidth Limit based on results.

“You’re limited in how much you can effectively accomplish in a day.”

- Mark Manson, Author

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