From: Thrive Global
A top psychologist changed how I approach my to-do list
June 26, 2017
Thrive Global:
The to-do list and the calendar are like square pegs and round holes.
With the rare (or deadline-driven) exception, the time spent completing a task doesn’t fit into polite half-hour chunks.
My expectation used to be that I could just drop tasks into my calendar, with the guarantee that those things would get done in the precisely allotted amount of time.
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This insight came courtesy of Georgia Tech organizational psychologist Howard Weiss, who I saw present at this year’s Association for Psychological Science conference in Boston.
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