John Zeratsky on Making Time Each Day for What Matters
The One You Feed
Eric Zimmer
4.6 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 16 January 2019
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
After a career as a designer in the tech industry, John Zeratsky became obsessed with the idea of re-designing time. He’s a writer who has written multiple books and his work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fast Company, and many others. In this episode, among other things, we discuss his newest book, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day.
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!n This Interview, John Zeratsky and I Discuss…
- His book, Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
- Understanding the limits on will-power
- Setting up our world around us so it’s easier to make the right decisions
- Creating more time in your day for the things you care about
- The two powerful forces that compete every day for our time
- “The Busy Bandwagon”
- The Infinity Pools
- Questioning the “defaults” in our schedule
- Creating a highlight for every day
- Living a “someday” life
- Finding more meaningful moments
- Urgency, Satisfaction, Joy
- Batch the little stuff
- Laser mode
- Taking back control of your time and energy
- Creating barriers to distraction
- Managing your energy
- Building your energy
- Focusing on the process not the outcome
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