Productive people do not let technology control them. They control technology. You might not think of yourself as a technologist or a high tech person, I don't think of myself as a high tech person. But if you want to be productive, you have to use the tools of your era. Michelangelo knew how to use hammers and chisels. They didn't exist 10,000 years earlier, he used the technology of his time to produce his craft.

Great, great sculpture. You've got to learn how to use the technology of your time. Some people believe it or not still like to use computers. You're probably not watching this if you don't use computers. But I'm sure you know some people some friends who way back when said oh, I don't do email or I don't do texting and then it was I don't do Facebook and five years later, they finally came to the party. But they just cast off an aura of not being productive people, they're always pulled, dragging and screaming five years late to a particular technology.

Again, I don't think you have to think of yourself as an engineer, or a technologist, if you want to become a potter, or if you want to become a sculptor. But you do need to know how to take pictures of your sculpture and send it to a gallery and the other side of the country and email it back and forth and communicate with them possibly through Skype video, to organize your showing across the country, that gallery. So often when I hear someone say, I'm not good with technology, what I hear and what I think most people hear is simply I'm lazy. Let's face it with most technology today, you do not have to learn complex computer programming. All you have to do is have fun patience to read, type, and click if you can read type and click, you can use almost any technology in the world.

You might not make $10 million a year as an artificial intelligence programmer for Google, but you can actually use virtually any technology. So it is crucial to get out of this mindset of, Oh, I don't do this or I do it old school. Nobody cares about what's convenient for you. I understand. It's always easier to do that way to do things the way you've always done them in the past. But he cares about the past.

If you want to be productive, you have to be in the present. And in the present is different for your industry, your field, your city, perhaps. It varies, it changes and it evolves over time. So my friends recommendation is just got to get rid of this idea of Oh, I'm not a technology person. Everyone is a technology person if you've ever used an old fashioned phone, well, that's technology, no one knew how to use a phone. When the first phone was created, it was really complicated.

I mean, I pick it up, I have to dial that was a wild, complicated task. In many ways that's more complicated than sending an email. And yet, nobody thinks of themselves as a high tech person for simply answering a phone or making a phone call. productive people might not think of themselves as high tech, or really technologically savvy, but they take the time, every so often, once they see other people around them using a technology to learn it. And it may mean carving out 15 minutes at lunchtime to Google. How do you use this app?

Or how do you use voice to text technology, but they're systematic Teaching them doesn't matter how much money they make. Doesn't matter how rich or famous or successful they are. They're still learning new technologies, not because they want to be a high tech executive, but because they simply want to be productive with the rest of the world and how the rest of the world wants to interact with them.