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Before Breakfast

There are a lot of known unknowns

Before Breakfast

iHeartPodcasts

Education, Self-improvement

4.51.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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You can plan for most possibilities

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0:00.0

13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction

0:05.3

podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.

0:08.2

If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.

0:11.3

Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.

0:14.9

Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.

0:18.4

How do you know? I'm innocent.

0:20.3

Are any of us truly innocent?

0:22.3

Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.

0:25.2

Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:35.8

Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.

0:41.6

Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.

0:48.4

Today's tip is that there are a lot of known unknowns.

0:53.8

Many of the normal things that go wrong can be dealt with, if you plan ahead.

1:02.0

Over the past few weeks, I have been talking about how to build a resilient schedule.

1:07.6

Anyone can build a perfect schedule, but true time management masters know how to deal with the

1:14.8

unexpected. Part of this is realizing that some things aren't really unexpected at all.

1:23.4

Several decades ago, then Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made the observation that, in war,

1:30.0

things fall into several categories. There are the known knowns, the things we know we know.

1:37.5

There are also known unknowns. He said, that is to say, we know there are some things we do not know.

1:45.6

He also noted that there are unknown unknowns. He said, the ones we don't know, we don't know.

1:52.8

He was making a point about the last category. But I've always thought that the

1:58.0

middle category, the known unknowns, is most interesting from a time management perspective.

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