{"id":13663,"date":"2021-10-26T08:03:56","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T16:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/?p=13663"},"modified":"2021-11-08T01:48:20","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T09:48:20","slug":"project-driven-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/26\/project-driven-life\/","title":{"rendered":"The Project-Driven Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of productivity advice is about the day-to-day. What tasks should you work on? When should you get up in the morning? How often should you take breaks?<\/p>\n<p>This granular perspective is valuable. For most, it\u2019s daily life that makes the difference. Big goals and plans matter little if they don\u2019t translate into action.<\/p>\n<p>When I view my own life, however, the biggest differences have come from projects, not tasks. These are large, complicated efforts that span anywhere from a month to a couple of years. It\u2019s by choosing these wisely (and actually finishing them) that I\u2019ve seen the most significant leaps.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13669\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What is a Project?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"inline-podcast\">\n<small>Listen to this article<\/small><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1155344872%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-GJCkTTZInV5&#038;color=%23219895&#038;inverse=false&#038;auto_play=false&#038;show_user=true\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>I contrast projects with goals.<\/p>\n<p>A goal is your desired outcome:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Lose 15 lbs.<\/li>\n<li>Become a millionaire.<\/li>\n<li>Learn French.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A project is a plan of action:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Stick to my daily workout for thirty days.<\/li>\n<li>Save and invest 25% of my salary for the next five years.<\/li>\n<li>Get a tutor, buy a textbook and practice speaking weekly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The line between goals and projects can be blurry. The difference is that goals emphasize outputs while projects emphasize inputs. A well-designed goal may be easy or impossible depending on circumstances outside of your control. A well-planned project, however, can nearly always be achieved because it depends mostly on your own commitment and effort.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL2-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL2-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>When I wrote my book, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/ultralearning\/\">Ultralearning<\/a>, I didn\u2019t focus on sales, external success, or other outcome goals. Whether it was a hit or a flop wasn\u2019t up to me.<\/p>\n<p>I focused on what I could control. I had a year to write. I still needed to run my business, spend time with friends and family, exercise and run my life. The project was to write the best book I could within those constraints.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Life as a Series of Projects<\/h2>\n<p>Projects are how I organize my life. This includes big ambitious ones, like writing a book or doing one of my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/my-projects\/\">learning challenges<\/a>, and it also includes small ones, like trying to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/19\/im-31\/\">sketch every day while on holiday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ten and twenty-year plans have always felt too restricting to me. Daily habits, while important, often lack the scope for more ambitious interests.<\/p>\n<p>I find the discrete, finite nature of projects to be satisfying. Think about a project for a while, work on it to the best of your ability, and at a certain point, it\u2019s finished.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Life Cycle of a Project<\/h2>\n<p>My projects go through three phases: incubation, action, and completion.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Incubation<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL3-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL3-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Incubation is essential. The longer and more ambitious the effort, the more it pays to choose wisely. You want to avoid picking poorly thought out projects you won\u2019t actually finish. Spending more time thinking about projects tends to filter out fleeting or bad ideas. When you do act, you\u2019re working on something that has kept your interest for months.<\/p>\n<p>This incubation phase tends to work best when it occurs during another project or immediately following one. Those are periods when you generally don\u2019t want to work on anything else, so daydreaming is relatively costless. When I\u2019m itching for a project but don\u2019t have a good one ready, I tend to settle for short ones\u2014a month at most.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Action<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13672\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL4.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL4-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL4-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Action is obvious. Nothing gets done without work. But I want to stress the experience of being in the middle of a project.<\/p>\n<p>Good projects should make you a little obsessed. Obviously, you can go overboard, but a good project should make you think about it a bit more than you\u2019d like to. If you can\u2019t get yourself to think about it, even when you\u2019re working on it, reaching the finish line is unlikely.<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t to say effort is automatic. Nearly every project I tackle has its low moments: frustration, self-doubt, the feeling that maybe this will end in disaster. You\u2019ll feel the tug of other, seemingly easier, more tractable projects. You\u2019ll want to quit, take a vacation and not worry about it so much. Maybe you\u2019ll feel like it was a big mistake.<\/p>\n<p>In good projects, these moments are fleeting. Soon enough, you\u2019ll get another breakthrough, some positive feedback or maybe take a weekend off, and the interest will return.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Completion<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL5.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13673\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL5.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL5-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.scotthyoung.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/PDL5-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>Finally, completion. Not all goals can be achieved in a single project, but all projects must end eventually.<\/p>\n<p>I prefer to define project completion by setting a timeframe rather than an arbitrary milestone. Working on something for six months or a year, and trying to do the best I can within those constraints, works better for me than working <em>until<\/em> I achieve a particular goal. Sometimes this framing isn\u2019t possible, but I find time-constrained projects easier to stick to.<\/p>\n<p>Finishing a project is a funny feeling. There\u2019s satisfaction, obviously, for a job well done. But after this immediate glow, there\u2019s not much feeling at all. You rest for awhile, and then comes the itch to begin again.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Projects Give Life Depth<\/h2>\n<p>Is this the best way to live? I\u2019m not sure\u2014it\u2019s simply how I\u2019ve settled into organizing my life. Some of that may reflect disposition rather than choice. My grandfather exhibited the same pattern of serial projects in his life, so perhaps it\u2019s hereditary.<\/p>\n<p>One advantage of organizing your life into a series of projects is that it can alter the perceived flow of time. We judge the passage of time by our memories. Distinct memories serve as landmarks of time\u2019s passing. If you want your life to pass in a flash before you, then the surest way is to do the exact same things every day. Projects serve as landmarks in the hazy stream of our daily existence and draw out our perception of time.<\/p>\n<p>I suspect projects aid in achievement as well. A project tends to be large enough to allow you to accomplish things that wouldn\u2019t happen automatically on their own.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the biggest reason is simply that a project is a reminder that life is finite. Oliver Burkeman\u2019s book <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.ca\/Four-Thousand-Weeks-Management-Mortals\/dp\/0735232466\/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&amp;gclid=CjwKCAjwwsmLBhACEiwANq-tXATYVOizTgacrgLfFKhGnqiDtP3x3zNVfTRQOX4C4w5-LoiOkTftThoCqJ8QAvD_BwE&amp;hvadid=506542448803&amp;hvdev=c&amp;hvlocphy=9001551&amp;hvnetw=g&amp;hvqmt=e&amp;hvrand=14019547324985018595&amp;hvtargid=kwd-1142911280872&amp;hydadcr=25834_10174906&amp;keywords=four+thousand+weeks&amp;qid=1634923344&amp;sr=8-1\">Four Thousand Weeks<\/a> breaks down a human life into weekly increments. But four thousand is still a hard-to-visualize number. Taking year-long projects as the modal value, claiming that life is around 50 projects puts things into a sharper perspective. What will be yours?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The majority of productivity advice is about the day-to-day. What tasks should you work on? When should you get up in the morning? How often should you take breaks? 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