Get it done by Thursday

Before Breakfast

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Self-improvement, Education

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🗓️ 11 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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How to buy yourself breathing room

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm David Eagleman from the podcast Inner Cosmos, which recently hit the number one science
0:05.4	podcast in America.
0:06.8	I'm a neuroscientist at Stanford, and I've spent my career exploring the three-pound
0:11.6	universe in our heads.
0:13.0	Join me weekly to explore the relationship between your brain and your life
0:17.5	because the more we know about what's running under the hood,
0:21.0	better we can steer our lives.
0:23.2	Listen to Inner Cosmos with David Eagleman on the I Heart Radio app, Apple
0:27.0	Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.7	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.
0:45.0	Today's tip is to be done by Thursday.
0:50.0	If you work a Monday to Friday work week, aiming to be done with most of your work duties by the end of Thursday
0:58.0	will buy you breathing room for things to go wrong, or to go very right.
1:05.6	Long-time listeners know that at least for information type jobs
1:09.6	I advocate keeping Friday as open as possible.
1:15.0	This isn't so you can take a long weekend, though of course that's nice from time to time too.
1:20.0	The idea is that most of us benefit from having open space in our schedules.
1:26.0	We don't know on Monday all the things we will need to do by the end of the week.
1:32.0	If every minute is already spoken for, then there is no place to put
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