As arranged, at precisely 9:30am on Wednesday morning there was a knock on our front door. I greeted the trendily dressed and well groomed Curtis. He carried a small, neat leather school bag. It contained an iPad, and some very thin brown books. In the books were measured words on productivity, beautifully printed by his partner on an antique letterpress.
Nobody teaches you ‘life-planning’. It’s not on the national curriculum, slotted in between P.E and maths, which means I’ve spent the best part of the last thirty years sort of bobbing along in life. For the most part it’s been fun but I’ve often felt that life would flow better if I had a map of where I was heading and why, and develop a clearer idea of what exactly I wanted to do.
“Productivity hacks are a lot of things. Some of them are bad. Like getting stuck at a party with the noisy lifehacker guy who tries to sign you up as a card-carrying member with every second word. Like the crystal-worshipping, zen-manager 2.0, who blogs about how he has reached productivity-Nirvana since using his hacks. Sorry, love to talk, but you’re boring me.
Propellernet have been on a real adventure with us. From productivity sessions, strategy workshops to mind mapping and thinking clubs, they have really embraced what they call their Propellernet Academy.
We’ve always said that what we do is not rocket science: people should be shown this stuff while they are still at school. Turns out we weren’t the only ones thinking this.