Nir And Far: Business, Behaviour and the Brain

Scheduling for Life’s Surprises: When Timeboxing is Toast - Nir And Far

Dec 18, 2023

Nir And Far discusses the challenges of timeboxing and shares strategies for handling unexpected events and distractions. They address common excuses, emphasize the importance of contingency plans, and provide tips for staying committed to tasks. Timeboxing can prevent distractions and help regain control of time.

13:53

Creator website

Episode guests

Nir And Far

AI Summary

AI Chapters

Episode notes

Podcast summary created with Snipd AI

Quick takeaways

Timeboxing is about working on tasks without distraction and determining their duration.

Effective strategies for managing life's surprises include creating backup plans and overestimating task time.

Deep dives

The Purpose of Timeboxing

Timeboxing is not about finishing tasks, but about working on them without distraction and figuring out how long they take.

Introduction

3min

Addressing the Excuse of Unpredictable Events in Timeboxing

2min

Strategies for Dealing with Predictable and Unexpected Events in Your Schedule

4min

Overcoming Excuses and Embracing Timeboxing

3min

Preventing Distractions and the Power of Timeboxing

2min

Some days, the world seems intent on sabotaging your timeboxed calendar.

A meeting goes longer than expected. The daycare center calls to say that your child is ill and has to be picked up ASAP. A project you thought would take an hour to complete instead took three.

Before you know it, the end of the day arrives, and you’ve barely given time to the tasks you had wanted to do.

You can read the Nir And Far blog post on: Scheduling for Life’s Surprises: When Timeboxing is Toast: https://www.nirandfar.com/scheduling-for-surprises/

Nir And Far, a podcast about business, behaviour and the brain by Nir Eyal. If you enjoy this podcast, please subscribe on iTunes and leave an iTunes review. It will greatly help new listeners discover the show. Please visit my website Nir and Far for other info about my writing, books and teaching: http://www.nirandfar.com/

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more