Day Two of Devdose
Time-blocking is the act of grouping certain tasks for certain times of the day, for a long time (after reading the 4 hour work week) I have just checked my email twice a day at certain times, this is an example of time blocking, another example might be that you only take calls from two until three, at a very literal level, you could schedule your whole day into allocated blocks.
It sounds simple and really, it is, well at least the planning of the Time-blocking, sticking to the time blocks without getting distracted, that is the tough bit, at least for me anyway.
Deep work is when you focus on a cognitive task and you are able to think deeply about it, the last and important part is, do it without distraction.
A side note, somewhat
I was talking to an old school mate recently about children, focus, growing up with social media, etc and we both agreed that these things had affected us too, we are of that age that we did not grow up with this tech, but still our concentration and ability has been impacted. 🙁
Combined these two teqniques can be very powerful, time blocking work for cognitive tasks and removing distractions to allow deep work may produce surprising results.
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