manynothings
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Are there are ideas about the circumstances of successful people not using GTD? Is this subset non-existent, as in every successful person applies the principles of GTD in some shape or form? David Allen scarcely mentions this topic in Getting Things Done, throughout the book, he gives an extremely polarized impression of the working population: either you apply GTD, have a relaxed mind, or you don't, and fall out of control in life. Somewhere in the beginning of the book, he mentions how successful people not applying GTD create and take advantage of opportunities that create more value than the chaos that reduces. Then he vaguely mentions about how the equation is often not the case in the modern day. That is the only mention I can think of where an explanation for how the non-GTDers live their life.
Is David Allen's confident (maybe over-confident) style of writing purely to convince more readers, or is there some actual truth to this sentiment?
EDIT: Actually, I just remembered another reference: something about workers getting on a rhythm if the job is simple enough, just like the old days.
Thanks,
manynothings.
Are there are ideas about the circumstances of successful people not using GTD? Is this subset non-existent, as in every successful person applies the principles of GTD in some shape or form? David Allen scarcely mentions this topic in Getting Things Done, throughout the book, he gives an extremely polarized impression of the working population: either you apply GTD, have a relaxed mind, or you don't, and fall out of control in life. Somewhere in the beginning of the book, he mentions how successful people not applying GTD create and take advantage of opportunities that create more value than the chaos that reduces. Then he vaguely mentions about how the equation is often not the case in the modern day. That is the only mention I can think of where an explanation for how the non-GTDers live their life.
Is David Allen's confident (maybe over-confident) style of writing purely to convince more readers, or is there some actual truth to this sentiment?
EDIT: Actually, I just remembered another reference: something about workers getting on a rhythm if the job is simple enough, just like the old days.
Thanks,
manynothings.