Ep. 32: Habit Tune-Up: Tracking Deliberate Practice, Getting Over the Fact Work is Hard, and Taming the Emotional Rigors of Depth

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Oct 1, 2020

This mini-discussion tackles the art of tracking deliberate practice initiatives to enhance productivity. It offers help to overwhelmed educators navigating tough workloads. The conversation highlights strategies to deal with hard work head-on, ensuring that emotional challenges of deep focus are addressed. Listeners are encouraged to reflect on personal management tactics and consider structured productivity planning. Plus, innovative methods like 'Capture, Configure, Control' promise to revolutionize how tasks are approached.

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ADVICE

Deliberate Practice Tracking

Track deliberate practice goals and progress in quarterly/semester plans.
Review these plans weekly to integrate objectives into your weekly schedule.

INSIGHT

Cognitive Demands on Teachers

Primary and secondary school teachers face high cognitive demands but often lack supportive work environments.
Their work involves intense deep work like mentalizing and lesson planning, but constant emails and new initiatives disrupt this.

ADVICE

Productivity for Teachers

Teachers should use "capture, configure, control" productivity strategies.
Capture all obligations in a system, configure them on a virtual task board, and control time with a daily time block plan.

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