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« Last post by mouser on September 21, 2006, 12:23 PM »
let me report a little how i am using some DIT forster ideas, and then where i think i need the most help in my system which im hoping the forster interview might help.
i've taken to heart forster's advocacy of closed lists and WILL DO lists instead of TODO lists.
for me this means: writing each action on an index card by itself, and never ADDING to an index card.
then at the begining of a day assembling a day's worth of index cards to form my WILL DO list.
because the cards are never allowed to add info to them, they are "closed" and can only be accomplished or put back pending completion. As forster says i do find this to be more satisfying and easy to manage than crossing items off a growing todo list. i actually like this a lot (ps i paperclip related cards so i can still keep related stuff together).
what i still haven't mastered:
getting myself to work on non-discrete non-snack items that i am resisting.
in general i find gtd and dit very helpfull in managing the tons of small things i have to do.
forster (unlike allen's GTD) actually spends time talking about strategies for working on bigger projects "little and often", but it's so hard for me to do this in practice. so for me personally, i'm most interested in hearing him reflect on these issues (especially since gtd doesn't address this at all). Intuitively i believe in my heart that the "little and often" strategy is a very good one. but actually finding the discipline to do it is the hard part for me.
I guess what i would love to hear the most is forster just elaborating on his thinking in this area, especially with regard to techniques and tricks that may be useful in overcoming the resistance of the subconscious primitive mind (as he discusses in DIT).
It would also be very informative to hear him talk about his evolution in thinking over the course of his books, as Nudone as mentioned.
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