Psychology and GTD Archives - Getting Things Done® David Allen's GTD® Methodology Sun, 13 Jul 2014 16:02:04 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9 Is there a Myers-Briggs connection to GTD? https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/04/is-there-a-myers-briggs-connection-to-gtd/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=is-there-a-myers-briggs-connection-to-gtd https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/04/is-there-a-myers-briggs-connection-to-gtd/#comments Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:00:31 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=3681 This is a Community Contribution from Don Khouri, based on his personal experience with GTD and personality assessment tools. You may wonder how your personality supports your ability to get things done. In this article, I will elaborate on various preferences and the connection to Getting Things Done® (GTD®). This is a follow-up to my …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2010/04/is-there-a-myers-briggs-connection-to-gtd/feed/ 2 How much can the brain really hold? https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/12/how-much-can-the-brain-really-hold/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=how-much-can-the-brain-really-hold https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/12/how-much-can-the-brain-really-hold/#respond Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:00:54 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/?p=2959 Your brain is a great place to have ideas, but a terrible place to manage them. -David Allen A key principle within GTD is creating a system external to your mind–if you want the system to be seamless.  In fact, there’s a good chance if you’re trying to hold more than about 7 things in …

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]]> https://gettingthingsdone.com/2009/12/how-much-can-the-brain-really-hold/feed/ 0 Expandable Intelligence: the Effort Effect and Learning How to be Organized https://gettingthingsdone.com/2008/06/expandable-intelligence-the-effort-effect-and-learning-how-to-be-organized/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=expandable-intelligence-the-effort-effect-and-learning-how-to-be-organized https://gettingthingsdone.com/2008/06/expandable-intelligence-the-effort-effect-and-learning-how-to-be-organized/#comments Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:55:01 +0000 http://www.gtdtimes.com/2008/06/06/expandable-intelligence-the-effort-effect-and-learning-how-to-be-organized/ A Community Contribution by Lynn O’Connor, Ph.D. Research on intelligence is also finding psychological components to levels of performance. When children are taught that intelligence is fixed, heritable, and set for life, many of them back off and put little effort into academics. Only those who have already been labeled as “high IQ” are off …

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