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Today, we’re talking about how one crazy guy goofed off all-day-long and still won a productivity award from his company. What you’re going to learn: How Bob (a programmer) was able to goof off all day long on social media and still get his work done on time every day Why you should stop doing all the tasks that you don’t enjoy (and how to do this without getting fired) How to make more time in your day for the things you love Key Quotes: ” I always think I’m the smartest guy in the room, the best guy for every task.” “You need to ask yourself not how can I do it, not how can I get it done, just how can it get done.” Read Full Transcript You want the answers to extreme productivity? I'm Kevin Kruse and I've got those answers from people like Grant Cardone, John Lee Dumas, Mark Cuban, Kevin Harrington, James Altucher, Lewis Howes, Chris Tucker, Rory Vaden and about 250 other great entrepreneurs, Olympic athletes, even straight A students and others. In the last episode I talked about using the Pareto Principle to erase 80% of your workload. Today, we're talking about how one crazy guy goofed off all-day-long and still won a productivity award from his company. First, I hope you'll hop on over to Amazon.com after this show, check out my new book, 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management. I interviewed over 200 people who gave me their answers, I boiled it down into 15 secrets. Hopefully you'll notice that there's over 200 great reviews on that book on Amazon, many of whom have said the book has been life-changing. Let's dive in to this episode. In January of 2013, several news outlets reported on the remarkable story of Bob, now, they didn't give his last name, they just called him Bob. Bob with his programming speed and high quality code, his company named him best coder in the building and he got excellent performance reviews. He was a model employee. Bob was in his mid-40s, nothing wrong with that I remind you, and Bob clocked in at 9:00 sharp each morning, sent his boss a daily summary of his productivity before he left every day right at 5:00. Again, he won best coder in the building. If we'd been secretly looking over Bob's shoulder all day to see what he was doing, we would have seen something a little weird. On Bob's average day, he would read Reddit and watch You Tube videos from about 9:00 o'clock when he got in, to about 11:30, and then he would head out to lunch, yup, kind of an early lunch. He would be gone for about 90 minutes, long lunch, back at 1:00 o'clock when he would promptly spend the next three-and-a-half hours surfing eBay, Facebook, LinkedIn and other social media sites. At 4:30, he'd start working on that productivity report, send it to his boss, and he'd go home without writing a single line of code. The next day he'd do the same thing, the day after that he would do the same thing. How could he be a star programmer and goof off day after day? Turns out Bob was very smart. Instead of asking how can I do this, he asked how can this get done. This is important, write this down, etch it into your brain. He looked at his workload at the software that he was supposed to produce and instead of saying, how can I do it, he said, how can it get done. The answer in Bob's case was he outsourced his task, actually his entire job, to a software company in China. Bob's company was giving him $200,000 a year to do this work. He found out that he can hire a programmer in China for $50,000 a year to do all the work for him leaving him $150,000 a year of net profit for doing nothing. For the longest time, Bob's company thought he was the star employee, he was so productive, all the while he just surfed the internet eight hours a day. Eventually Bob's company noticed some unusual server activity from China. They thought they were being hacked, and so when they investigated it, they stumbled upon Bob's brilliant scheme....