024 Can Productivity Be Fun? – ProductivityCast

On this cast, we have some fun! That is, we ask ourselves the question, can productivity be fun? The ProductivityCast team talks about the concept of adding fun into your productive life. We discuss the potential opportunities to incorporate play into your work, gamifying your productivity system, negative stereotyping by business about the idea of games in a professional space, and more. How are you adding fun into your productivity? Enjoy! Give us feedback! And, thanks for listening! If you'd like to discuss this episode, please click here to leave a comment down below (this jumps you to the bottom of the post). In this Cast Ray Sidney-Smith Augusto Pinaud Francis Wade Art Gelwicks Show Notes | Can Productivity Be Fun? Resources we mention, including links to them will be provided here. Please listen to the episode for context. The Fun Theory Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Cass Sunstein, PhD, and Richard Thaler, PhD gamification The Pomodoro Technique Forest (app) Bullet Journal Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport Deliberate practice (developed by K. Anders Ericcson, PhD) Getting Things Done FAST (audio program) by David Allen SuperBetter (at Work) by Jane McGonigal, PhD Productivity Book Group’s discussion on SuperBetter Raw Text Transcript Raw, unedited and machine-produced text transcript so there may be substantial errors, but you can search for specific points in the episode to jump to, or to reference back to at a later date and time, by keywords or key phrases. The time coding is h:mm:ss.ms to h:mm:ss.ms (e.g., 0:00:00.000,0:00:04.000 starts at 0.00 seconds and ends at 4 seconds in the cast's audio). Read More Coming soon!