Well, hello there, top teachers. We are your hosts, Michelle Emerson and Bridget Spackman,

and we are here to make your life easier by helping you master your time, organization,

and productivity as a teacher. It's summer, which means it's time for another book review.

Every summer we read a productivity book together. So in today's episode, we are going to share our honest

thoughts. We're always honest, but, you know, brutally honest thoughts on the book, Deep Work by

Cal Newport. But first, we're going to hear a TSAH from summer. Now, just transparency here. This is an old

TSA from 2020. But still, it was worth a mention because it just fit with this podcast episode.

So, Summers TSAH says books. I don't want to put them down and I can and I can throw off my productivity levels.

I've switched almost exclusively, exclusively words are hard this morning, to audiobooks for this reason.

Michelle?

Well, first of all, I just realized not only is it about books and this episode is

about books, but her name is summer and it's summer.

Oh, that's cute.

Cute.

So what's funny is I would not have been able to relate to this in the past, but this year,

because I am on a reading spree, I'm up to 16 books that I have read, I do understand this.

And just recently I ordered another book, not that I need another one because I already have,

you know, a bunch in the tank. But my

coach recommended one to me and I ordered it and it came on Friday. And I wanted to start it.

But then I was like, Michelle, once you start it, that's like two days that you're dedicating to it.

And you can't afford that right now. So I, Summer, I completely understand. Yeah, I will say that I

feel like the same as Michelle. I think specifically during the school year, I don't have the

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