I know the stereotype is of Js doing this. I do it to help me remember things that I might forget otherwise but which are very important. Sometimes write it on my hand if it is very very important.
I was wondering if other Ps do it.
I use lists, Post-It Notes, tape, several different bright colors of permanent markers, or even a shard of a paper plate - I don't care what it is; if I need to remember something then non-living objects near me are at high-risk of being
"tattooed."
My reasoning for this is multi-faceted.
I have ADHD, and if I make a task
tangible then it is more prone to becoming an active artifact that my mind will assign resources to.
That's kind of the reason behind the bold colored permanent markers - what I am looking for? Oh! the one with 3 big, blue question marks on it!!!
Third, I got over using paper as my sole source of papyrus decades ago.
I'm shameless about re-purposing anything that can be written on if I need to complete a task that is above a given minimal level of importance.
It's easy to find the corner of a cereal box, and 1/4 of a paper plate all mixed up with a bunch of sheets of 8.5" X 11" paper.
I'm not a P (obviously) but the Ps I know -- especially my INTP dad and ENFP friend -- constantly make to-do lists. They probably make them more often than I do, make them more effectively than I do, and stick to them better than I do.
That's an interesting observation, EJCC!
I think it's because even though I naturally have a to-do list in my head all the time, they don't, so they've had to train themselves to work that way?
As a fan of ESTJ's, I must say of all people MBTI types, if I had to name one as the
"incarnation of productive activity" it would be ESTJ.
My Father is a machine.
In his hayday he literally terrified people at the sheer mass of work he could accomplish in a given time period, as compared to his peers.
As an ESTP, and as his son, I have alot of that fire in me, but my incantation of "the gift" is to do the most with the least on the spot - and being able to do it again in a completely different context the next day, and so on and so forth.
Give me a $1,000,000 project to manage for 5 years and I'll fall asleep in boredom trying to remember it exists.
Give me a $1,000,000 to create an information system in 6 months or less, all of it with less than compatabile hardware and software interfaces - and I'll go bonkers with joy at the chance to accomplish what others say is unachievable - just for the sake of doing it, and just for the sake of showing how the rules that many organizations bind themselves with over time are inevitably their own undoing, until a crisis calls for allowing a resourceful outsider perform organizational CPR on the dying behemoth.
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Yup, I do it all the time, and have for a very long time.
I can't say the lists always get done, but I find that most Ps make lists!
I keep a list until it has three or less items on it, and then transfer those @ their current level of priority to a new list.
I e-mail myself.
I text myself.
Any bit of useful information I come across will be assimilated, and then transformed into what I need it to be later.
I'm an information hoarder but I don't have any bookcases.
Pretty much never for me.
That's because you're the Archbishop of MENSA, Seymour.
Stop showing off and making us all look bad.
You just hurt my I.L.A.C.!
-Halla74