GTD Buzzwords: Advanced Common Sense [Getting Things Done]

This is a guest post by GTD Wannabe of gtdwannabe.com.

The other day, I was listening to Merlin Mann’s Inbox Zero presentation, which was essentially the audio track to a talk he gave to Google employees back in July. It was a great talk, focused on your email, but there were many other nuggets of GTD wisdom in there as well. If you haven’t seen it, or heard it, I recommend you checking it out.

The talk reminded me of the term “advanced common sense”. It’s a great way of describing the whole Getting Things Done philosophy. Of course the term is great - David Allen uses it himself to describe GTD.

Since I listened to that talk, I’ve been contemplating “advanced common sense”, and what parts of GTD really fit under that heading for me. When I first read the book, there were several places where I had “EUREKA!” moments. Places where I slapped my head and said, “Wow, now why didn’t I think of that, it’s just common sense!”. Advanced common sense, but common sense nonetheless.
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Original post here: gtdfrk

25 September 2007 | GTD, General, Guest Post, Productivity, System, common, context, reference, sense | Comments

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