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Ep. 118: LISTENER CALLS: A Primer On My Planning Philosophy

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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Weekly Plan - The Secret Sauce of This Whole Discipline

The secret sauce of this discipline is figuring out what are the big things that are important, perhaps urgent, perhaps non urgent, that i'm going to try to fit into this week. There's two places where these big things can come from: Your calendar dead lines and your quarterly plan. These decisions are very concretely cited in your actual free time that week. I use gogle calendar, so i can have multiple different colored calendars with different names showing up on the same weekly grid. And i have a special calendar, i call it logistics, that i use for blocking out work plans. Like this morning is writing the journal review,. This afternoon is working on the book proposal. Oh

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