The Productivity Puzzle Solved: Find & Fix Your Weakest Link

Tiago Forte January 30, 2025
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Building a Second Brain is the proven method to organize your digital life and unlock your creative potential. We're on a mission to help you increase your productivity, and ​​lead a more fulfilling life with more ease and less stress. 🧠 HOW YOU CAN BUILD YOUR SECOND BRAIN Order the book: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/book Take the course: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/foundation 🤓 TEST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY POTENTIAL If you had a Second Brain, how much more organized, effective, calm, and creative could you be?  Take our quiz & find out: https://fortelabs.com/productivity-potential 📬 JOIN THE FORTE LABS NEWSLETTER Level up your productivity and life with new essays, videos, event invites, and other resources every Tuesday. Join 100k subscribers exploring the frontier of modern work, experimenting with new ways of doing more with less, and discovering what it means to fulfill our human potential. Subscribe here: https://fortelabs.com/subscribe

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The “Theory of Constraints” is an almost forgotten concept from the 1980s with the potential to skyrocket your productivity. In this video, I break down this powerful framework, originally created by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt, and show you how to apply it to your personal workflow in five simple steps. 🔎 Read more about the Theory of Constraints in my blog https://fortelabs.com/blog/series/toc-101/ CHAPTERS: 00:00 - 00:24 Intro 00:24 - 01:55 What is the Theory of Constraints and How it Can Improve Your Productivity 01:55 - 02:39 Step 1: Identify the Constraint 02:39 - 03:16 Step 2: Exploit the Constraint 03:16 - 03:59 Step 3: Subordinate Everything Else 03:59 - 04:37 Step 4: Elevate the Constraint 04:37 - 04:50 Step 5: Repeat the Process 04:50 - 05:15 Conclusion ----------------------- 💌 Join our weekly newsletter for more productivity tips and resources https://fortelabs.com/subscribe/ 📚ORDER MY BEST-SELLING BOOKS 🧠 Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/book 📂The PARA Method: Simplify, Organize, and Master Your Digital Life: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/para 👩‍🎓 TAKE MY SELF-PACED COURSES 1️⃣ Pillars of Productivity: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/pop 2️⃣ BASB Foundation: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/foundation 🤓 TEST YOUR PRODUCTIVITY POTENTIAL Take our Productivity Pulse Check to evaluate your daily habits and find out where you can make improvements. Take the quiz now: https://fortelabs.typeform.com/pulsecheck?utm_source=youtube 👋 CONNECT WITH ME 📬 My weekly newsletter: https://fortelabs.com/subscribe 👩‍💻 LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tiagoforte/ 🌐 My website: https://www.buildingasecondbrain.com/ 💌 My blog: https://fortelabs.com/blog/ 🐦‍⬛ X: http://x.com/fortelabs 🟦 Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fortelabs 🤳Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fortelabsco/

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