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Discussion Forum > Ask Mark: Overrated Underrated

Ask Mark what he thinks is overrated or underrated.

January 16, 2017 at 6:09 |

Michael B.

Meetings...

January 16, 2017 at 6:12 |

Michael B.

Overrated:

Mark's ability to answer questions like this.

Underrated:

Your own ability to answer questions like this.

See my book "Secrets of Productive People"

January 16, 2017 at 12:23 |

Mark Forster

This post was part humor, part learning, so it seems "mission accomplished". Ha. That's why I started with meetings — I already knew your answer for that!

January 16, 2017 at 20:38 |

Michael B.

My name's not Mark, but I'll give it a go!
*overrated: doing tons of things to "be productive".
*underrated: having a clear view of things so the few that are done are truly productive!

January 17, 2017 at 2:51 |

Tommy

Tommy:

I like that idea. All are welcome on this one. I'll see about an update to the post to reflect that.

January 17, 2017 at 3:12 |

Michael B.

New Year's Resolutions...

January 17, 2017 at 3:23 |

Michael B.

Expensive proprietary systems with notebooks, inserts, special calendar, special paper, quarterly updates, rules, hole punch, tabs, stickers, markers, 4 color pens, page markers ...

vs

piece of paper and a pencil

January 17, 2017 at 20:46 |

matthewS

matthewS:

"Expensive proprietary systems."

Overrated. Though our digital devices have essentially become the modern equivalent!

"Paper and pen."

Vastly underrated. Especially when compared to apps and digital devices.

January 18, 2017 at 0:19 |

Michael B.

I'm a paper and pen man myself as you all know, though for most systems the paper is best in a simple notebook.

The only exception to this is The Last Hour for which I use a simple to do list on Evernote. The reason for this is that I can easily change the order of the tasks as circumstances change. (It would be too messy to do this with paper and pen (or even pencil)

January 18, 2017 at 10:49 |

Mark Forster

Michael B. , yes, thank you. That is the overrated/underrated I intended label as well.

January 18, 2017 at 21:17 |

matthewS