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David Allen

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“You know, the new edition of the book that came out two or three years ago is if you haven't got the new edition, it's really worth reading, I think. I've updated a bunch of stuff and sort of tweak the languaging a good bit a lot of people really appreciated that and read it a second time if you haven't read it but once believe me it'll be a whole different book and we're coming out with the GTD workbook in September penguins doing that it's kind of the 10 moves to stress free productivity because you know the getting things done can be quite daunting for people they pick up the book and look at it oh my god too much to do so kind of in the you know in the in the genre of the the workbook for the seven habits that was written and the workbook for some of the other business guru books i don't know if tim have you written workbooks for the four hour work”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Uncover something that you're not. And again, I've been doing this for 35 years. So at a certain point, you go, you know, people just do what they do. Let me just do the best work I can do. And just with what's in front of me complete it with as much elegance and excellence as I can. And then the next thing is going to show up. You know, that was a big freeway aha moment I had years ago when I was agonizing about what I should do with my life and this little still, small voice inside of me said, David, don't worry. You have created so much in this life and probably many others. You don't have to worry about that. Just complete whatever's right in front of you with as much excellence as you can. And the next thing will automatically show up. And I haven't turned back from that. That's constantly been what's happened.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, it's not really hope. Come on, after all these years, I go, you know, I'm not a proselytizer. I'm really not. I just think what I've, you know, I've had the good fortune to uncover something that allows people to create more space. And again, what they do with that space is up to them, whether they want to use it to be able to do their spiritual practices. People often say, is this a spiritual thing? I go, well, I guess everything is, but no, but if you're into practicing spiritual practices, this gives you a lot more space to be able to do that in a quieter way. But again, people will do whatever they do. The people are already spiritual. They just may not be that aware of it, but I don't have any, I'm not out trying to get people to be something that they're not or to...”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't know. You'd have to give me that billboard and that opportunity. Let me see what shows up because I need to let go to be able to see what showed up as opposed to try to preconceive that. I mean, your head's for having ideas, not for holding them's not a bad one, you know, just a practical GTD-esque quote.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My screensaver just says let go. Controllers of the master addiction. So it's always a good idea to say, hey, drop it. let life just you know be what it is”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Any of those things will work, you know, all you need are lists basically, and you just need something to be able to cut and paste reference material in. I've got reference material all over Lotus Notes. I've got reference material all over Evernote. I've reference material in Word files, all over. I don't have any particular template or any particular suggestion other than probably not a bad idea to every once in a while, maybe yearly, curate all of that stuff so you don't have a lot of old dead wood in there.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The web clipper, but I still don't use it that much. I don't have that much stuff that I want to do about that. You know, the problem with things like Evernote, somebody described it as write only In other words, they spend all their time adding stuff in there and don't even go in and look at what they got.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“On the left hand side, and they have my action list. There's one of them says projects, one of them says agendas, one of them says calls, one of them says computer, one of them says creative writing, one of them says errands, one of them says home, one of them says online, one of them says someday maybe, and then waiting for. And so I can actually drag an email into any one of those and it becomes that. Or I can just open that folder and then add anything to that folder that I want. So it's both an email manager as well as a task manager at the same time.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I still use IBM Notes, the old Lotus Notes, but we still use that in our company. And I actually had my CTO for 15 years, Eric Mack, built an app that sits on top of or within notes that lets me use email as my task manager. But you'd have to be using notes to use it so it's not publicly available unless you want to set up Lotus Notes or IBM notes and then get e-productivity stick on it. But that's basically as I look at my screen, for instance, I have navigator.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I know people that do weekly reviews with their families. Very cool to do. I think you need to do your own private one in any case, no matter what. But then if you have groups of people to say, what are the things that we are all interested in as a group that we can share and update each other with? So absolutely. It's a great time to do that. Probably wouldn't necessarily frame it so much as a weekly review so much as let's review all the things that have our attention as a team, as a group, as a family, as a couple.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, you know, are people like Will Smith or Robert Downey Jr., they're big champions of my stuff? I could say their names because they were public about that. So if people think the creative people can't use GTD, I'd say, hmm, there are a few people you ought to meet.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Invariably, if you capture, clarify, organize, and reflect on all the things that have your attention, it will give you more room. What you do with that room is unique to you. Some people use it to be more creative. Some people use it to be more strategic. Some people to be more innovative. Some people to be just present with whatever they're doing. One of my biggest champions, a guy named Howard Stern, you can't find a more creative guy than Howard. He'd tell you to change his life. Gave him the time to learn to paint, which you always wanted to do, as well as keep serious radio going.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This guy is so smart, so creative. You know, he collects modern art. He runs the Chicago Ideas Week. He started it. So this is probably one of the most creative people you would ever meet, certainly one of the most productive people you'd ever meet. And I spent a year with him. People say, well, why would he do GPD? I said, well, his presenting issue with David, I'm just up to here. He was 27. He said, I'm just getting my traction. But I wake up with million-dollar ideas, but I don't know what to do with them or where to put them or who to give them to. So he just needed more room. So, you know, what GTD does is it provides space.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that was him. No, but in chair, paintbrush, paint to canvas, stare at it, discipline yourself. Anyway, so I think there is the degree to which that, well, I don't know, that just seems so self-evident. Most of the people that basically that I know, some of the most creative people I know, one of the most creative guys I know, and he just spoke at the summit, by the way, he sent in a video. So I know since he was public about it, I can make him public, probably the most one of the most successful entrepreneurs. He just won, actually, the EY world entrepreneur of the year for 2019. Brad Keewell and Brad's. He zone five boards. He teaches entrepreneurialism, the University of Chicago. He built Groupon and sold it. That's why he has his own jet. His new startup is now four years old, but even two years in had a $2 billion market cap.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you just need as much structure as you need. Ask anybody out there. Was it Picasso that said inspiration is for amateurs?”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, I think it was Fulber that said, be steady and well ordered in your life so you can be crazy and spontaneous in your work. Was 120 years ago, but he said that. It's funny people say, I don't want to be so structured. I said, what do you think about the middle line in the road out there? It's a constraint. It's a limitation. No, the center line is great. It lets me think about other things while I'm driving as opposed to someone who's going to hit me. So just enough structure to give you the freedom. So I don't structure anything more that I need But you do need a certain rigorous structure. Well, throw away your calendar if you don't like lists. It's just the price of missing the appointment is emotionally pretty high. That's why people maintain that structure pretty well.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, I don't have to do much of that these days, Tim. I mean, I guess given where I am in my life, people usually don't contact me unless they're nice. or at least fun to I have a little bit of the what's his name I never met a guy that I didn't like you know Will Rogers you know I have a little bit of that in me and I think most people are good people to begin with and most people just don't come to me with negative stuff you know I guess maybe in the old days a little bit but I kind of just made a joke kind of like I don't like unpleasant people but I have a blessed life and I have nothing but you know pretty much pleasant people around me”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not really, except unpleasant people. That's about it. I don't know. I suppose this will change, but still at 73, I still take advantage of every, I think there's probably two or three or maybe five interviews or podcasts that we've refused because the sleeves factor was just too high. But I've done 2000 since getting things done was published in 2001. I just say, hey, anybody is interested in this? Sure, I'm here to share it with the world. Here we go. And I don't have really, really that deep a pocket. I haven't been that entrepreneurial or aspirational to go build this huge fortune. And so I still take advantage of work that shows up if it seems interesting and seems like something that people are interested in me doing. I go, yeah, you know, my price has gone up, so I'm not doing as much, but that's okay.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Cycle of a seven day cycle in that kind of thinking. So it's probably one of the most challenging habits to set up, but certainly the most rewarding if you do.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You don't have a standard time? No, I don't really. Just one sort of ambient anxiety sort of creeps up on me. But it's usually about every seven days. You know, years ago, I actually read somewhere, Tim, that because we've always said, we always knew just practically anyway, that a weekly review was really kind of critical to keep your system current and alive and well. And then it grows. If you don't do that, it gets out of date. You'll fall off the wagon pretty fast and pretty coherently. But then I read one somewhere that your brain actually, if you try to recall something that happened within the last seven days, you can pretty well recreate the context in your mind. After about seven or eight days, it's kind of like there's a part of your brain that does a control alt delete. And it's like just trying to recreate something that happened two weeks ago. It's like, can't find it. What? Where? So there seems to be some sort of a natural...”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Then again, even if you haven't set up a system just to take an hour a week and step back and look at your life and say, hey, what's happened in the last week? What do I need to do about that? Just any kind of a thinking in a more reflective process is going to help anybody, you know, at any time and not just go zone out or drink or even just meditate, but to really focus on the work of your life. You know, it's a different focus. When you're thinking about, well, what did I commit to? What's new? What do I need to be aware of? If nothing else, just look at your calendar for coming up the next two or three weeks. Everybody's going to go, oh God, that reminds me. Yeah, no kidding. So, any of that kind of stuff, and again, the more that you have externalized your life and your work, the more valuable this review is going to be.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, first of all, let's step back a second and say, if you haven't captured clarified organized and reviewed, most of the stuff of your life, you don't have the whole thing to review yet. So the weekly review, the ideal weekly review means that your system is relatively current, at least it's only a week old in terms of maybe stuff that you haven't brought current yet.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And an awful lot of people don't step back and reflect what we call the weekly review or any kind of a regular reflection review where you step back and take an hour or two at least once a week and bring up the rear garden and get current and get clean again because life's like that. And those are all the steps that people don't take. So I'd say, hey guys, read the book again. I had somebody read the book 20 times. He says it's a different book every time he read it. Because you're ready for a different cut on the stuff when you read it again. So it sounds like it's pretty simple, but it's quite a habit for most people to change”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I'm not into having anybody change any of the behavior they don't want to change. My job was just to give people information whether they want it or not. I'm not going to beat anybody up about it or I'm not even going to proselytize about it very much. I say, look, you want a clear head. Here's how you get it. And you can do it or not. I don't care. Well, I care, otherwise I wouldn't share this information because it's potentially transformational and life-changing for people when they actually get this methodology and capture, clarify, organize, reflect, and engage with their stuff. If they do that, but people can fall off on any one of those. A lot of people just don't write everything down so they don't trust their head or their lists. A lot of people don't decide next actions and outcomes for stuff. And so their lists are, you know, when they look at them creating as much stress as they relieve. And a lot of people don't have a trusted organization system that they trust that their head can absolutely let it go, knowing that they're going to see the right thing at the right time, be reminded of the right stuff.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Usually I go out, Catherine and I usually go for it. We have a beautiful park about an eight minute walk from where we are that we love to just walk around. You know, just it's a nice way to clear your head even when we don't have a dog, we get out, get outside. And it's such a beautiful place here that that helps too.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“French press cup of coffee. Sooner or later a protein drink. If we have a dog, the dog goes out. I read The New York Times on my iPad European version. And I'll probably play a game or two of words with friends because I like to get my brain sort of going by just, you know, doing scramble with people around the world. And then whatever I feel like doing next.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, Tim, what I do regularly is the night before. I look at what my calendar for the next day or two and see what my hard landscape is, meaning what are the things I got to do, you know, no choice in terms of commitments that I've got. So I know how long to sleep. I'm a huge fan of sleep. I used to think I was just lazy, but now given the new cognitive science, I'm just smart. We all need eight to nine hours of sleep a night, unless you're really unexceptional person. So I love sleep. So that's my first thing is the night before, just to see how long I can sleep and want to.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The content is a good bit more serious than what the title sounds like. He's really into kind of poo-pooing the people that just say, oh, don't have any negative thoughts, just go think positive thoughts. And not accepting reality. And so he goes into quite a bit of exploration of Stoicism. And I couldn't agree more with actually his hypothesis and his thinking. Anyway, it's a fun book. My wife just broke out laughing regularly. She was reading the book. It's very well written. So that's one of my latest recommendations for sure.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“One of the latest one is called the antidote. Oliver Berkman. Fabulous book. Totally fun. It's happiness for people who can't stand positive thinking. Oh, you'd love it. Love it, Tim. It's great”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going and getting adhesive cloth tape, a four inch piece, and putting it over your mouth when you go to sleep so that you train yourself and you build the practice of actually sleeping with nasal breathing. A fascinating stuff.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oxygen advantage. I had no idea how critical it is to do nasal breathing instead of mouth breathing. It is amazing stuff. Anyway, so there's a new habit sleeping with, you know, actually he suggests”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Nothing comes to mind except just our wonderful dog that we had to put down a few months ago that we're going to need to get another, you know, walking your dog and just being quiet, you know, very cool. I'm actually reading a brand new book right now that I was getting Shiatsu at a spa. And my Shiatsu master who was working on me said, by the way, because I went to sleep. And by the way, you have a little bit of sleep apnea. He said, you must read this book. So I am halfway through this book called The Oxygen Advantage.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah. So everybody, it's like surfers. You're always going to fall off. You just want an ankle tether on so you can get back on real quick and allows you to surf bigger waves.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Every vision you have, every creative thought you have, everything you decide to do is going to throw you out of your comfort zone because you're going to have to undo what you were doing before and reconfigure everything for the new game. So, you know, it's not like I'm totally feeling overwhelmed. I just don't let myself go very long before I fix it. But as soon as I, you know, this huge project I had, this GTD summit, was quite, you know, there were many times that I felt somewhat overwhelmed because I wasn't quite sure what was going to happen over a lot of unknowns and so forth that I didn't feel like I could control that well. And so, you know, but, you know, I eat my own dog food, as we say, or I sit down, write it down, make next action decisions, say, what can I handle? What can I not handle?”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, are you kidding? I don't want to make assumptions regularly. Yeah, okay. Come on, it's not always, you know, come on.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That have translated? Not really. More just the strength to get through all that and to come out the other side and make life work in the way that it works for me. So I don't know that there was any other particular aha that happened other than, hmm, well, I think I will change my attitude and shift my approach so that it's much more effective. Yeah, so that helped it. I mean, having gone through that, there's not a lot, there's not a whole lot that scares me out here.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, it's a good, you know, I don't know that I have a recommendation other than follow your intuition. I think there's a perfect timing for all that for everybody. Everybody's on a spiritual path, whether they know it or not. Everybody's doing what they're doing as a way to fulfill something that they're trying to complete here on the planet. And it's all around. It's in everything. So whatever is going to allow you to be quieter and listen to, as I say, the universe is always on. So meditation is not like stopping the universe or stopping anything. It's just quieting this sort of material loud world out here so you can pay attention to the more subtle voices.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Stuff you can't see that's affecting us. And we all exist on many different levels. Like, you can't say you're mental, you can't see your thoughts, you can't see your emotions. I mean, there are people who can sort of see your energy field around that, but there's a lot of stuff you can't see that's affecting us. And I use spiritual with a small S. It's called, yay, there's a lot of worlds out there. It's possible to experience those worlds if you meditate, if you practice certain practices, you can quiet yourself enough to be able to tap into a lot of the other levels. So that's a huge universe”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That we're sort of studying the science of spirituality essentially and dug into that like crazy, oh my God, you know, I'm not so crazy. I tapped into something that there was something to tap into. So then started to go on an exploration to see if I could find somebody who knew a lot more about that than I did. And that's when I discovered a guy named John Roger who then wound up being my spiritual coach. I said, so I hung out with him. I said, well, I'll see how much I can learn from him. And that was 45 years. And he was just further down the path than I was, but had a lot of that information. So that's when my life, sort of my outer life, you know, got much simpler and much more calm and traditional my inner life got quite rich at that point.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I got a job, you know, and sort of straightened myself up and started to cooperate with the world. And then that's when I discovered a whole lot of, I wasn't sure what had happened to me, but I was walking down the street in Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley and walked into a store called Shambala Bookstore. And I walked in, I don't know why, just intuitively. And I looked around and I looked down on the shelf and I saw this book that said, the gateways to spiritual science by Rudolph Steiner. I said, hmm, I wonder if there are people who actually know what all this stuff is really about. And so I spent the next oh, three or four or five months exploring huge amounts of the esoteric literature, of the occult and the white brotherhood and all kinds of stuff that I didn't know anything about. But there's a whole body of literature, the theosophists to begin with in the late 1800s, early 1900s in Europe.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, I got really pissed off at my mentor friend, and he knew that I would kind of have gone off the rails. And I threw a brick through his window. And so he called the cops. And the cops put me away. Anyway, it's a much longer, more intricate story than that, but that's the simple very.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Or are you tapped into something very different? So I knew I was tapped into something very different, but couldn't get anybody to understand that. And then it became quite painful. And at a certain point, I said, well, you know, this is too painful. I think I'm going to decide to cooperate instead of rail against these people that can't see what's going on. So as I say, I never really got cured. You're just looking at a high state of cooperation. So I've managed to, and it wasn't very long, but how long?”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, you know, back in the early Berkeley days, I had a really interesting time where I was having my own kind of sort of psychic or spiritual experiences and didn't understand where they came from and didn't understand why other people didn't understand them. And so, you know, though I'd been sort of Mr. Nice guy, suddenly I found myself outcast. And that was quite painful. So I wound up involved in sort of aberrative behavior out of my frustration of all that. And they put me away in a middle institution, you know, which I thought was kind of interesting because at the time I could see as much about what was going on with the people who put me there as anybody in there. And I thought, well, that's kind of fascinating just to be able to see all that. And I'd read much of the literature about, you know, is crazy really crazy.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The karma of being able to share what he had learned with them because he owed them. So it turned out I was one of those people, at least according to him. That's kind of in woo-woo land, but there may be some people listening to this that know what I'm talking about.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, he would see certain things. In other words, he would have a vision of something and say, by the way, I know this person did X, Y, and Z. And indeed, that's exactly what they did or what they were going to do. So he just had an extra sensory perception ability for that. In his own story, he's now dead, but if he told the story, he was quite depressed as a kid and didn't know sensitive and didn't understand where people were doing what they were doing. He did all kinds of things to try to compensate for that, you know, all these sports things that he was extremely good at. And then one day he went to sleep and was taken out of his body. And was shown other levels of why he'd been going through all the experiences he had and who was going to be coming toward him and that he would have this job essentially.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, yeah, no, it was short. I didn't understand myself well enough, not comfortable enough in my own skin to know how to engage with that. So it was kind of a radical, you know, God bless her. She endured it as well as anybody could, I suppose. But I was not a class act in terms of how I did that. In other words.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I don't remember exactly whether it was days or weeks or months, but it certainly wasn't, I don't think it was months. I think it was probably weeks that I had that fought. But, you know, I'm Mr. Approval Suck. I like people's approval. I don't like being the rebel and being out. I like people to like me. And so that was tough.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not for me. So left my marriage, left my life, left all of that, and then embarked on an inner and outer adventure that was quite adventurous. You know, I ran into, you know, you can read a lot of stuff about me out there. I ran into a lot of false starts and a lot of things that didn't work very well, but it was all in my exploration. It wasn't really escape. I was just looking exploring an awful lot of things and then found more and more stable ways and more inner ways to a much more consciousness and stability than kind of random and ad hoc. So I kind of grew up from that over the years. And sort of my outer life became a lot quieter, even though my inner life was still quite rich. So I suppose that was a hallmark event was for me to make that decision to leave what people”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I found my life started to change and I suddenly had kind of been doing all the things that were cool to do and that sort of were expected of me to do. I'd been a straight A student. I'd gone to a very hip and cool college. Obviously I got into graduate school, you know, had good grades, married a beautiful woman, got a house in Berkeley. I mean, this was as cool a life as one could have. And then one day I woke up and realized this wasn't the life I wanted, that there was an adventure that I was holding myself back from, that there were things I wanted to explore and expand and so forth that I wanted to do. And that sort of changed me. You know, one day I just decided to not go back to school. And I have no idea kind of records the University of California, Berkeley has of me, but I just didn't go back. I said, not.”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, yeah, I mean, there are probably a dozen, but I'll tell you one that comes to mind. I don't think I've shared this with many people. But as you mentioned it, what pops to mind is I had a guy that became a very good friend of mine and a mentor of mine many, many years ago that I met in Berkeley. And he was the guy who offered to teach me karate. He was quite an interesting guy. He was a Olympic fencer. He was a formula racer. He had black belt and karate. He was just a fascinating guy. He was also psychic. He was studied by the University of Pennsylvania just because of experiences that he had and things that he saw and things that he knew. And back in the early days when universities were starting to study this psychic phenomenon and where it came from. And Michael became a very close friend of mine. And as he started to teach me karate,”
2019-09-03 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #384: David Allen — The Art of Getting Things Done (GTD) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT