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Ep. 261: Control Your Time

Deep Questions with Cal Newport

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How to Use Time Blocking to Save Time

Time block planning is when you make a plan for every hour of your day. You have a clear shutdown for when that plan is done and then you switch from time blocking mode into a much more relaxed mode. So why does it work? Well, there's three things that are going on here. It makes it better use of your available time in a given day because you actually see the whole picture. And if you do it for a while, you gain a much more realistic understanding of how long things actually take.

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