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Productivity

CEFR B2
Upper
Intermediate
warm up
- Do you think people generally learn from history?
- How much can we learn by analyzing our own past choices?
- What helps you make better decisions?
key language
reading
PINKCAST 4.26
Here’s Peter Drucker’s simple method for improving your performance.
In the last 20 years of writing about business, I’ve often dealt with a major annoyance: I’ll come up with what I’m convinced is a mind-shattering, era-defining idea — only to discover that Peter Drucker had the idea a few decades ago.
Drucker was consistently astute about the present and prescient about the future. A true legend.
Among other breakthroughs, he pioneered the concept of “managing oneself” — which was as novel in the 1980’s as it is commonplace in the 2020’s. And perhaps my favorite Drucker self-management technique is “feedback analysis,” which involves writing down your expectations today to improve your performance tomorrow.
It’s all explained in the latest Pinkcast. You can watch the 174-second video by clicking the link below. After you’ve seen the video, come back here and answer the questions below.
zaniedbywać
znajdować złoty środek
dążyć do, pretendować, mieć aspiracje
zabiegać o, ubiegać się (o coś)
odpuścić, porzucić
ostatecznie, w końcu
zadania, przydział (pracy)
wykupić (czas na coś)
zakres (obowiązków)
watch the video
COMPREHENSION
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When by Daniel Pink
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THE BLUE TREE
Personal
Productivity

CEFR B2
Upper
Intermediate
warm up
- When do you feel the most energized during the day?
- What do you do when your energy levels are dropping?
- How well do you know your body as regards your circadian rhythm?
part one
key language
watch the video
COMPREHENSION
- ⌚ 00:39 When do people perform the worst during the day according to research?
- ⌚ 00:49 What is the most unproductive time in the UK?
- ⌚ 01:07 Why does Daniel Pink call this time the Bermuda Triangle?
- ⌚ 01:18 What is the daily Circadian Rhythm?
- ⌚ 01:43 What are the three stages of our attention and mental ability during a day?
part two
key language
watch the video
COMPREHENSION
- ⌚ 1:58 What is the best thing you can do at the beginning of a trough?
- ⌚ 2:14 How long should our naps be?
- ⌚ 2:25 What effect does a 10 minute nap have?
- ⌚ 3:05 What is Nappuccino and why is it so effective?
- ⌚ 3:17 If you cannot take a nap, what should you do during a trough?
- ⌚ 3:32 If we absolutely have to do important work during a trough, what should we remember about?
- ⌚ 3:44 When should we do our most important work?
part three
key language
watch the video
COMPREHENSION
- ⌚ 4:00 What are the two categories of important work?
- ⌚ 4:17 What are some examples of logical work?
- ⌚ 5:18 What makes the Linda Problem a logical problem? Did you get the answer right?
- ⌚ 5:18 When did people answer this problem correctly more often?
part four
key language
watch the video
COMPREHENSION
- ⌚ 5:34 Which side of the brain does insight work rely on?
- ⌚ 5:40 What are some examples of insight work?
- ⌚ 6:19 Why was the coin fake?
- ⌚ 6:25 What is required to solve insight problems like the Coin Problem?
- ⌚ 6:25 When did people answer this problem correctly more often?
part five
key language
watch the video
COMPREHENSION
- ⌚ 7:01 How should we organize our work taking the above information into account?
- ⌚ 7:16 Who are the people who have a late chronotype? Is this you?
- ⌚ 7:38 How can we know if we have a late chronotype?
- ⌚ 8:30 What is the ultimate goal that can help us be most productive?
POLL
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COMMENTS
Do you agree that it as important to know when your trough? What do you do when your energy levels are dropping? How well do you know your own Circadian Rhythm?
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The power of regret by Daniel Pink

COMMENTS
What do you think of the Drucker Memo technique? How effective can it be in improving our performance or decisions? What would you write about if were to try it out?
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