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Ep. 208: To-Do Lists Are Inhumane

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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What's Happening in Your Brain?

When we have a long and diverse list, is actually the nero scientific correlate of our planning apparatus freezing itself. So this way of work and organization that's so common in modern life really is incompatible with our brain. What i commonly do in these situations,. is I will begin sorting these list and combining like tasks, tasks that are a similar type of behavior using aSimilar part of your brain. And i will sort them into stand alone groups or pileSo if you're watching f you're watching on you two, you'll see i have one group where i have replied a genifer reply to mom. Next step, dinner party. And i've elaborated that task to say, email restaurant

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