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Ep. 132: LISTENER CALLS: Managing Non-Work Tasks

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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What Is the Richuaol Around My Weekly Plan?

i find it very stressful because my mind is confronting many different things that have to be done. Getting n boxes down the zero takes a lot of time. Once you get used to having a weekly plan, your discomfort without has a weekly plan grows and you're much more likely to do it. You don't necessarily need an elaborate ritual to trick yourself into doing it. And note, no big ritual beyond it, other than, i feel uncomfortable if i don't have weekly plan. That's not a sign that you don't like planning. This is simply a mis match between our wiring which is really meant to do executive planning, but not in work environment where we need this type of planning

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