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How to Live a Deep Life at Work and at Home

Redeem the Day

CHAPTER

How to Use Deadlines to Get Things Done

Mark O'Mara: I love the way that, you know, she was facing one of those deadlines and every writer runs into this like, I just, I can't seem to concentrate. And so these idea of leveraging deadlines or what would be called commitment devices that you kind of force yourself into a corner reminds me of Parkinson's law, right? This idea that work contracts or expands to fill whatever time we have to do it. We also have to recognize that there are a lot of external distractions and specifically like incoming messages, text message,. emails, slack DMS, like whatever.

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