Steven Covey crusades for breaking free of urgency and putting important things first, but considers them as equals on two dimensions of a quadrant <http://sidsavara.com/personal-development/nerdy-productivity-coveys-time-management-matrix-illustrated-with-xkcd-comics> .
In a study of factors that affect task prioritization reported by pilots <http://flightdeck.ie.orst.edu/CTM/study1/study1.html>, importance was cited more frequently by a margin of greater than 2:1, yet concludes that with a model of *status (urgency)* uses *procedure* to obtain *value (importance).* Another study on decision making by urgency gating <http://jn.physiology.org/content/108/11/2912> suggests a policy that maximizes reward rate is to estimate evidence by accumulating only novel information and then compare the result to a decreasing accuracy criterion. The brain approximates this policy by *multiplying an estimate of sensory evidence with a motor-related urgency signal* and that the latter is primarily responsible for neural activity build up. Since the brain is wired to treat novelty as a measure of importance, this would lead to some measure of *salience* that combines the two. The paper concludes that "the build up of neural activity observed in many decision-making tasks is not primarily attributable to the integration of sensory information but that it is caused by an *urgency signal*, related to motor preparation, that implements a simple policy for *achieving a speed-accuracy trade off.*" Finally, one may consider valence and a distinction between positive urgency and negative urgency <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2705930/> - the tendency to engage in rash action in response to extreme positive/negative affect. Such a distinction could bias risk-taking behavior. On Fri, Sep 12, 2014 at 9:55 PM, Piaget Modeler via AGI <[email protected]> wrote: > Importance then urgency, or urgency then importance? > > Which? > > ~PM > *AGI* | Archives <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now> > <https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/18488709-8cf25195> | > Modify > <https://www.listbox.com/member/?&;> > Your Subscription <http://www.listbox.com> > ------------------------------------------- AGI Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/303/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/303/21088071-f452e424 Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21088071&id_secret=21088071-58d57657 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
