785: How to Improve Focus and Productivity through Smarter Deadlines with Christopher Cox

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🗓️ 21 July 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Christopher Cox discusses how to leverage deadlines to curb procrastination, improve productivity, and deliver better results.

— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) The worst possible deadline you can give yourself

2) The trick restaurateurs and theater artists use to consistently deliver quality

3) The trick to making self-imposed deadlines more motivating

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— ABOUT CHRISTOPHER —

Christopher Cox has written about politics, business, books, and science for The New York Times Magazine, GQ, Harper’s, Wired, and Slate. In 2020, he was named a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a visiting scholar at NYU’s Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute. He was formerly the chief editor of Harper’s Magazine and executive editor of GQ, where he worked on stories that won the Pulitzer Prize, the PEN Literary Award for Journalism, and multiple National Magazine Awards. His book The Deadline Effect is out in paperback now.

• Book: The Deadline Effect: Inside Elite Organizations That Have Mastered the Ticking Clock

• Website: Deadline-Effect.com

— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• Research: “More and Less Effective Updating: The Role of Trajectory Management in Making Sense Again” by Marlys Christianson

• Research: Procrastination of Enjoyable Experiences

• Research: "Procrastination by pigeons: preference for larger, more delayed work requirements." by J.E. Mazur

• Book: Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely

• Book: The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert Caro

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0:00.0	Welcome to the How to Be Awesome at Your Job Podcast.
0:04.0	The show where brilliant professionals share how to sharpen the universal skills required
0:08.6	to flourish at work.
0:10.1	Enjoy more career fun, wins, meaning, and money with your host, Pete LeCaites.
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to episode 785 with Christopher Cox.
0:24.0	Christopher is a world-class writer who spent a boatload of time digging deep into the
0:30.0	research on deadlines and how we can set them more effectively in the cool results that
0:34.8	emerge from them.
0:35.8	See, all the other in one, the worst possible deadline you can give yourself.
0:39.6	Two, the trick, restaurant tours and theater artists used to consistently deliver quality.
0:45.1	And three, the trick to making self-imposed deadlines more motivating.
0:49.2	So if you want to check out the show notes or the transcript or the links to bits that
0:52.2	we reference, please, pace a visit at awesome at your job.com slash EP 785.
0:58.2	And while you're at awesome at your job.com, I recommend you check out our gold nugget email
1:01.5	list, which provides a summary right up of the actionable wisdom that Christopher shares
1:07.5	right to your inbox.
1:09.7	And you get those right as each episode releases as well as unlocking the whole vault of all
1:15.5	785 such right ups those the gold nuggets at awesome at your job.com.
1:20.8	Here's a bit about Christopher Christopher Cox has written about politics, business, books,
1:24.7	and science for the New York Times Magazine, GQ, Harper's, Wired and Slate.
1:29.7	In 2020, he was named a Knight Science Journalism Fellow at MIT and a visiting scholar at NYU's
1:34.9	Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
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