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Dec 2023
13m 53s

Scheduling for Life’s Surprises: When Ti...

NIR EYAL
About this episode

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/



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