I'm Cal Newport and this is DeepQuestions, episode 136.

So today is a listener calls mini-episode.

I have pulled out six calls from the archive.

I hope to get through all six in today's episode.

But first of all, I wanted to mention something

I've been observing recently for some reason.

And I'm not quite sure why.

The past week or two, I haven't been nailing my time block

plan.

So what I mean by that is they're not quite accurate.

And on average, I am losing one major thing

for my time block plan per day.

In other words, there's one major thing in my plan

that I don't get to each day.

I normally pride myself in the accuracy of my time blocking

because I've been doing it for a long time.

But for whatever reason, and I have some theories,

but it's somewhat orthogonal to the issue here.

So let's put those theories aside.

But for whatever reason, about one of the big things I plan

to stay is not getting done.

Two key observations about that that I was just thinking

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