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Before Breakfast

Counter program your life

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

The case for making the most of off-peak times

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:30.1

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of I Heart Radio.

0:37.0

Good morning.

0:40.0

This is Laura.

0:42.0

Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast.

0:44.7

Today's tip is to think about when everyone else does something

0:49.4

and then find another time.

0:52.4

Doing something at the opposite time as everybody else lets you avoid crowds and get more done.

0:59.0

A lot of national public radio local affiliates do what they call counter-programming.

1:04.9

After they set the program schedule for their main radio station, they'll schedule opposite

1:09.4

programming on their other stations. So if they're playing classical music on the main station,

1:15.0

there might be news on the other one, and vice versa.

1:19.0

That way, if a listener doesn't care about the main programming, the counter programming might still work.

1:25.4

You can counter program in your own schedule too.

1:29.4

Do what you need to do in life while everyone else is, metaphorically, on another station.

1:36.0

By doing this, you'll encounter smaller crowds and less waiting.

1:40.4

If you're tackling life maintenance tasks, they'll get done faster.

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