Comments on: How To Be Extremely Productive: Total Immersion

By: Lis Carpenter

Lis Carpenter — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:14:00 +0000

The total immersion method definitely works for me. It’s just a shame when you can’t sustain your focus on a project because you ‘have to’ do other things. I moved all of my meetings to the same day of the week this week. Hi five on Batching! Down with multitasking!

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:17:21 +0000

Hey Arsene-

I couldn’t agree more. Sadly, I’m not fully to my total immersion dreams. But through batching and other elimination tactics I’m getting there.

I love how total immersion can apply to many of life’s endeavors. I’m a healthy lifestyle super geek, which includes an ardent love of swimming. Swimming doesn’t come naturally to most, but there’s a training program called … wait for it … ‘Total Immersion’ that hacks the traditional training philosophies and makes it easy plus fun. Tim Ferriss has even used it to overcome his vehement and lifelong fear for swimming (Tim’s post here – http://bit.ly/12zNV).

Cheers!
Matt

By: Arsene Hodali

Arsene Hodali — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:18:57 +0000

Fantastic hack! I seriously hope people read your comment.

By: Arsene Hodali

Arsene Hodali — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:17:06 +0000

You totally get it!

By: Arsene Hodali

Arsene Hodali — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 04:16:19 +0000

Guess I never clarified the difference between “total work” and “total immersion” well enough.

You live and you learn. Thank you for the feedback.

By: Robert

Robert — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 02:53:53 +0000

I think the idea is to use total immersion on an area of life that is seriously lagging behind.

If you want to make intense improvement in an area of your life that is really lagging, I’d definitely apply it. Making gradual improvement in multiple areas spreads your focus too thin. Sure it’s great for balance, but IMO, balance is better over the span of a lifetime. As Carlos mentioned here http://www.owlsparks.com/decisions/quest-for-balance/. Or as Stephen Covey mentioned in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, when he said, “focus on the rhythm of the week, rather than the rhythm of the day.”

Since the areas of life are so intertwined, the improvement in one area would spill into the others

By: Kyle Crum

Kyle Crum — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:03:49 +0000

You should probably mention that in the post. As it reads now, it seems as if you are suggesting to do only work for long periods of time, even up to 24 hours.

If your suggestion is to focus on the things that matter and forget the things that don’t, then I can get behind that.

By: Steven Ponec

Steven Ponec — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:22:38 +0000

Put in the asterisk into a block set, click “Actively block pages on these sites once the time period is entered or time limit is exceeded”

“Enter a time limit after which to block these sites:” 120 “minutes in every” day (24 hours)

By: Steven Ponec

Steven Ponec — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:19:40 +0000

Here’s a trick for limiting internet. Just found this out. Hope it helps someone out there!

Install Leechblock onto firefox
“The wildcard character (*) can be used (*.com will block all dot-com sites and * on its own will block all sites).” – from Leechblock FAQ