The Don’t/Do System
Donald Roos
How limitations can improve your time management, entrepreneurship, and save the world
What is this course about?
I like the idea of working in circles. You > Local > Global. (That is also an aspect of the To-Do-List Method, which will be addressed in the first or second session.) Starting at a personal level (manage your workflow). Then sell your ideas. Making impact. Lastly, we will explore how you can contribute to saving the world. Own your impact. What’s your responsibility? From Time Management to Saving the World: Limit Yourself.
Session:
YOU: Time-Management — Session 1 & 2
Session 1: The ToDon’tList Method (for you a person)
Session 2: Sketch, Don’t Talk (ToDon’tList Method for your work) / Limitations
LOCAL: Entrepreneurship — Session 3 & 4
Session 3: Test Your Ideas
Session 4: Grow, Own Your Impact
GLOBAL: Economics/Saving the World — Session 5 & 6
Session 5: Understanding Our Society
Session 6: Saving the World by Doing Nothing
ZUsammenfassung: Preis und Early Bird Preis bis Ende Dezember 2025
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Who will be your teacher?
Donald Roos is a creative entrepreneur based in Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Trained as a (typo-)graphic designer at the Royal Academy of Art, The Hague, he sets up and runs projects with other professionals from different fields. Like many creatives, he has too much to do and too many ideas, so he came up with the ToDontList method.
Together with co-writer Anne de Bruijn, he previously published Don’t Read This Book – Time Management for Creative People (30.000 copies, translated into seven languages) and Don’t Buy This Book — Entrepreneurship for Creative People. Their latest book is If You Don’t — Economics for Creative People / Saving the World by Doing Nothing. They also developed the thought experiment game called Don’t/Do This.
Based on his ToDon’tList philosophy, Donald strongly believes that limitations stimulate creativity. Whether it is time management or saving the world, making choices not to do something can be very effective. Deciding not to do everything, but making choices about what is really essential, defines your identity and your projects. It makes you stand out from the crowd. This is what you will learn in the course.
For whom is the course:
Creative People — While the course focuses on professional creatives, it is open to everyone who considers themselves creative and wants to work more effectively, not by adding more, but by leaving out.
What is required:
Paper and pencils —I’m considering making a workbook (that can be sent or printed as a PDF).
What will you learn:
You will learn the power of not doing. Setting limitations can help you manage your time more effectively, come up with unexpected solutions, create products or projects that stand out from the crowd, and even save the world as a positive side effect. All by not doing. Limitations Stimulate Creativity.
Limited seats available!
