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785: How to Improve Focus and Productivity through Smarter Deadlines with Christopher Cox

How to Be Awesome at Your Job

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Do Deadlines Really Work?

How can we get some more of that motivationa ump when it's just something that we made up for ourselves? Ye, that's a great question. And i would say that first, you set up these interim dead lines, right? You set up, let's say you're trying to finish,let's say it's a turn paper. If you set up a dead line for yourself, say, a month before it's do i want to have the first draft done? Or if t ha longer work, won't have the first chapter done? Then do that. Impose that deadline on yourself. Even faked deadlines, even self imposed deadlines, are effective. They're not

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