Mihai Banulescu – How To Be Playfully Productive

In this episode with Mihai Banulescu, we talked about:

• Growing up in Roumenia he was advanced in math coming to the US. Going into computers was a natural thing.
• Agile and Ruby are written for developer happiness.
• The episode with Maud Slich on testing of software
• The lesson he learned from volunteering during his college years in New Hampshire.
• How he developed the productivity game with David Brawn.
• If you don’t get good at execution, your planning doesn’t matter.
• Doing 23 minutes of really focused work, then take a break and start the next cycle with 2 minutes reviewing what you did.
• Habit Coach Certification
• Teach people that are already very productive, to take a five-minute break.
• There is a gift in starting and stopping, as long as you can relax in between.
• To be human is play and joy. Do as little work as possible, to have more time to play and joy.
• His life’s purpose is to reinvent education.
• Sudbry school and agile learning centres.
• Conversation with Maria Alvarez Garzia – Rethink how we think about education.
• How do I make that in-the-moment choice?
• The six-word memoir.
• Finite and Infinite Games is a book by James P. Carse.
• In order to be playful, you have to have a choice.
• Do I have any worth when I am not producing for people?
• Coddiwomple – to travel purposefully without a set destination.

You will learn to appreciate and nurture connections of all kinds.

He coaches (teaches) whatever inspired and transformed his own life— blues partner dancing, authentic connection, productivity-integrity, meditation-prayer, and coddiwompling.

Unlike most productivity training, he will guide you to introduce small but very effective habits/tools which will (hopefully) have an immediate positive impact on your life. This in turn will motivate you to ask for the next habit/tool, and so on.

Part of his philosophy is that being human is more important than being productive, and that rhythm and rest play a huge part in both happiness and productivity. In the end, it is possible for your work to be a kind of playful meditation which actually increases the amount of energy available to you for the other parts of life.

 

 

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